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Quranic root

ودع

w · d · ʿ

The root centers on leaving, releasing, or letting something be.

From this core develop letting alone or abandoning, quietness and repose when exertion is left off, mutual non-interference as reconciliation, farewell as leaving someone, and entrusting something to another's care.

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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.

وَدَعَ

wadaʿa

Part of speech
Verb · Form I
Form
I
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.

  1. To leave alone, let be, dismiss, or disregard.

    Especially used in the imperative دَعْ. Constructions with عَنْ can mean to dismiss something from oneself or cease concerning oneself with it.

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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 33:48word 5

    and disregard

وَدَّعَ

waddaʿa

Part of speech
Verb · Form II
Form
II
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.

  1. To forsake or abandon someone; to leave him.

    In the Quranic construction ما وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ, the expression denotes not abandoning or forsaking the addressee.

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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 93:3word 2

    has forsaken you

مُسْتَوْدَع

mustawdaʿ

Part of speech
Passive participle · substantivized noun
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.

  1. A repository or place of deposit or storage.

    A passive participle used substantivally for a place in which something is deposited, kept, or held. The Quranic contexts present it as a location associated with something being held or placed.

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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 6:98word 8

    and a resting place

    Quran 11:6word 12

    and its place of storage

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 6:98وَمُسْتَوْدَعٌۭ ۗand a resting place
  • 11:6وَمُسْتَوْدَعَهَا ۚand its place of storage
  • 33:48وَدَعْand disregard
  • 93:3وَدَّعَكَhas forsaken you
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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 12 Classical meanings
  • وَدُعَ؛ وَدِيعٌ؛ وَدَاعٌ

    Stillness, quiet, rest, and composed gravity; وَدُعَ means to become still or calm, وَدِيعٌ can denote a quiet or sedate man, and وَدَاعٌ denotes gravity or steadiness.

    The person-related use is explicitly applied to a quiet, sedate man; the abstract noun وَدَاعٌ denotes composure or steadiness.

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  • وَدُعَ؛ وَدَعَ؛ دَعَةٌ

    To be in ease and comfortable circumstances; ease, repose, tranquility, and ample conditions of life.

    دَعَةٌ includes freedom from trouble, inconvenience, toil, or fatigue, as well as comfortable and abundant circumstances.

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  • وَدَّعَ؛ وَدَاعٌ

    To bid someone farewell or take leave of him; valediction.

    وَدَاعٌ denotes the act or formula of farewell and taking leave.

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  • وَادَعَ؛ تَوَادَعَا

    To make peace or reconcile with another; in the reciprocal form, for two parties to become reconciled with each other.

    The reconciliation is associated with mutually leaving one another unmolested.

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  • وَادَعَ

    To leave one another, each being left by the other; to mutually refrain from interference.

    This mutual leaving is described as the primary sense underlying the conventional meaning of making peace.

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  • تَوَدَّعَ؛ مُتَّدِعٌ؛ مُتَوَدِّعٌ

    To spare oneself exertion or refrain from striving; to live at ease; of a person, to be comfortable and unburdened.

    The use describes leaving off strenuous effort rather than a general act of abandonment.

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  • اِتَّدَعَ

    To proceed or conduct oneself with moderation, without haste or hurry, especially in walking or journeying.

    Applied to the manner or pace of proceeding.

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  • اِسْتَوْدَعَ

    To entrust property to someone, give it to him in trust, or ask him to keep, preserve, guard, or care for it as a deposit.

    The construction may take property as the entrusted object or a deposit entrusted for safekeeping.

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  • وَدَعَةٌ

    A cowry shell, or Cypraea.

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  • وَدِيعَةٌ

    A thing committed to another's trust and care; a trust or deposit.

    Refers to property or another thing placed in someone's custody for safekeeping.

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  • مِيدَعٌ؛ مِيدَعَةٌ

    A garment or piece of cloth used as a repository for clothes.

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  • مُوَدَّعٌ

    A euphemistic designation for a deceased person, as one who has been bid farewell.

    This is a conventional figurative designation, not the ordinary sense of the passive participle.

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Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The Quranic Form I occurrence is the imperative دَعْ; the public headword is normalized to the perfect citation form وَدَعَ.

  • مُسْتَوْدَع is morphologically a passive participle but is used substantivally in the Quranic form group.

  • The lexical discussion also mentions a reported variant reading at 93:3; the public form identity follows QAC's attested Form II وَدَّعَ.