Quranic root
وصد
w · ṣ · d
A root oriented toward bringing or pressing things together, especially in a way that closes, covers, encloses, or makes them closely compact.
This orientation extends to shutting doors and entrances, covering something over, enclosing people or animals, forecourts connected to dwellings, and vegetation with closely gathered roots.
- Maqāyīs · row 5127
- Mufradāt · row 1583
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
مُؤْصَدٌ
muʾṣadun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Closed over; tightly shut so as to enclose what is within.
In the Quran, the feminine form مُؤْصَدَةٌ describes the Fire as firmly closed over those within it.
- Lane · entry 45328
- Mufradāt · row 1583
Selected Quran examples
Quran 90:20word 3
“closed in”
Quran 104:8word 3
“closed over”
وَصِيدٌ
waṣīdun
- 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.
A forecourt, threshold, or doorway—the entrance area of a dwelling or cavern.
In the Quranic account of the Companions of the Cave, the word is interpreted as the forecourt, threshold, or entrance of the cave.
- Lane · entry 45326
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:18word 13
“at the entrance”
A cavern or cave.
This is an alternative Quranic interpretation of وَصِيدٌ in the Companions of the Cave passage.
- Lane · entry 45326
A closed or covered enclosure; something shut over.
A Quran-linked lexicographic interpretation associated with the وَصِيدٌ passage and a variant vocalization; it is not assigned a separate modern Quran location.
- Lane · entry 45325
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 8 Classical meanings
أَوْصَدَ
To close or shut a door or entrance; to block or stop it up.
The related passive usage describes a door or entrance becoming closed. The action may also be used of an obstruction stopping an entrance.
- Lane · entry 45323
مُوصَدٌ
Closed or become closed, especially of a door or entrance.
A passive participial description of an entrance that is shut.
- Lane · entry 45328
- Lane · entry 45323
أَوْصَدَ
To cover over a cooking pot.
A concrete covering use distinct from shutting a door or entrance.
- Lane · entry 45323
أَوْصَدَ
Figuratively, to straiten someone or impose an unbearable difficulty.
A figurative application to putting a person under severe constraint.
- Lane · entry 45323
- Lane · entry 45326
اِسْتَوْصَدَ
To make a fold or enclosure for sheep or goats in a mountain.
The construction refers to preparing a mountain enclosure for livestock.
- Lane · entry 45324
وَصِيدٌ
A stone fold or enclosure in the mountains for sheep, goats, or other flocks.
The stone enclosure is distinguished from a branch-built حظيرة.
- Lane · entry 45326
وَصِيدَةٌ
A chamber made in a mountain for keeping property.
A mountain-made enclosure for possessions, distinct from the livestock fold.
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وَصِيدٌ
Herbage whose roots grow close together.
The meaning describes compact growth at the roots.
- Lane · entry 45326
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane records vocalic and orthographic variation between مُؤْصَدَةٌ and مُوصَدَةٌ; the displayed Quranic headword follows the independently identified QAC form.
Lane's historical citation to the Cave passage uses the notation xviii. 17 and is not converted into a modern verse location; the example uses QAC's supplied occurrence at 18:18.