Quranic root
سرد
s · r · d
An ordered succession in which many things follow one another while remaining connected.
The root develops from the interlinking and orderly joining of material—especially mail rings and stitched leather—to continuous progression in discourse, recitation, movement, and related sequences.
- Maqāyīs · row 2408
- Mufradāt · row 680
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
سَرْدٌ
sardun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Interlinked mail, or the ordered joining of its rings; the mailwork whose rings, holes, and fastenings are properly proportioned.
In the attested construction, the noun denotes linked armor and the proper adaptation of its rings, perforations, and pins.
- Lane · entry 40895
- Mufradāt · row 680
Selected Quran examples
Quran 34:11word 6
“the links (of armor)”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 34:11ٱلسَّرْدِ ۖthe links (of armor)
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 19 Classical meanings
سَرَدَ
To carry something forward in regular successive order; to continue it without interruption.
Applied to a thing carried forward stage by stage, and to narrative, discourse, reading, or recitation; also used of maintaining a fast without interruption.
- Lane · entry 40890
سَرَدَ
To pierce and join material in a linked or interwoven manner: to fabricate mail by inserting rings, perforate an object, sew leather or a sandal, or cover a camel’s foot with interwoven thongs.
The cited constructions include mailmaking, perforation, leather and sandal sewing, and interwoven covering of a camel’s foot.
- Lane · entry 40890
سَرِدَ
To fast continuously without interruption.
A distinct Form I vocalization associated specifically with uninterrupted fasting.
- Lane · entry 40890
سَرْدٌ
Consecutive or following one another without interruption.
Used adjectivally of things occurring in an unbroken sequence, including stars and a succession of months.
- Lane · entry 40895
أَسْرَدَ
Of palm trees, to have hard green dates.
The construction is أَسْرَدَ النخلُ, with the dates described as سَرَاد.
- Lane · entry 40892
تَسَرَّدَ
To follow one another or continue in an uninterrupted sequence.
Used of pearls, tears, narrative, and recitation.
- Lane · entry 40893
اِسْرَنْدَاهُ
To prevail against or overcome someone or something.
A rare quadriliteral verb used for an overcoming force or thing.
- Lane · entry 40894
سَرَادٌ
A hard green or unripe date; in reported variants, a date damaged by lack of water, dropped before maturity, or sweetened before becoming colored.
The lexicographic evidence records several applications to dates before normal ripening.
- Lane · entry 40897
سِرَادَةٌ
The craft of fabricating coats of mail.
A specialized noun for mailmaking, equivalent in meaning to the corresponding form based on زرد.
- Lane · entry 40900
سَرَّادٌ
A maker of coats of mail; also a sewer of leather.
An occupational noun covering both mail fabrication and leather sewing.
- Lane · entry 40901
سَرَنْدًى
Strong, bold, daring, or courageous; quick in one’s affairs and advancing boldly.
A descriptive term for a person characterized by boldness and energetic action.
- Lane · entry 40903
سَرَنْدًى
A sword that penetrates what it strikes.
A specialized descriptive use for a penetrating sword.
- Lane · entry 40903
مِسْرَدٌ
An awl or perforating instrument, also used for sewing leather; especially an awl with a hole at its extremity.
The sources give several closely related descriptions of the instrument, including equivalence with مِخْرَزٌ and إِشْفًى.
- Lane · entry 40906
ابْنُ مِسْرَدٍ
In the expression ابنُ مِسْرَدٍ or ابنُ أُمِّ مِسْرَدٍ, a son of a female slave, used as an insult.
An idiomatic and derogatory expression explained through the association of a female slave with leather sewing.
- Lane · entry 40906
مِسْرَدٌ
The tongue, metaphorically conceived as an instrument that pierces or wounds reputations.
Used figuratively of speech that damages people’s reputations.
- Lane · entry 40906
مِسْرَدٌ
A sandal whose projecting forepart or tongue is faced with another piece sewn onto it.
A specialized term for a sandal constructed with an additionally sewn piece.
- Lane · entry 40906
مَسْرُودٌ
Made by sewing or joining in a regular, uninterrupted sequence; specifically, sewn leather or mail made by interlocking and perforating its rings.
Applied both to continuous leather stitching and to a coat of mail fabricated from joined rings.
- Lane · entry 40908
مُتَسَرِّدٌ
Following one another without interruption.
Used of pearls, tears, or walking steps that proceed consecutively.
- Lane · entry 40909
مُسْرَنْدٍ
A thing that overcomes or prevails against one.
A rare descriptive form for an overpowering thing or force.
- Lane · entry 40910
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied Quranic occurrence anchors the noun to the mailmaking context in 34:11. Lane's separate expression for continuous Quran recitation is retained as a Classical construction and is not assigned an additional modern Quran location.