Quranic root
ولد
w · l · d
The root centers on offspring, progeny, and descent: bringing forth or being born, and the parent-child relation.
From the basic notion of offspring and lineage, the lexicon extends to parents, infancy, birth-time and birthplace, propagation, and—by analogy—things produced or originating from other things.
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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.
وَلَدَ
walada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 9 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.
To give birth to or beget; in the passive, to be born or be begotten.
The active verb may describe a female parent giving birth or a male parent begetting; passive forms describe the person born or begotten. The same lexical relation is expressed across active and passive voice.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:72word 3
“Shall I bear a child”
Quran 19:15word 4
“he was born”
Quran 90:3word 3
“he begot”
Quran 112:3word 4
“He is begotten”
مَوْلُود
mawlūd
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
One born; a newborn or offspring. In the Quranic construction مَوْلُودٌ لَهُ, the person for whom a child is born, namely the father.
The literal passive-participial sense is extended by the constructional relation “one for whom a child is born”; the supplied contextual rendering identifies that person as the father.
- Lane · entry 45730
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:233word 12
“the father”
Quran 31:33word 13
“a son”
وَلَد
walad
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 56 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.
A child or offspring, including a son or daughter; in usage, also an adopted child.
The noun may be used for one child or collectively for children and offspring, and may refer to a child attributed by adoption as well as one naturally begotten.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:21word 14
“(as) a son”
Quran 28:9word 15
“(as) a son”
Quran 2:233word 25
“because of her child”
Quran 71:21word 11
“and his children”
A man's people, tribe, or family.
This is a reported Quran-associated interpretation of the vocalic variant wuld in a possessive expression. The supplied lexical evidence does not securely identify the modern verse location for that interpretation.
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وَالِد
wālid
- Part of speech
- Noun · Parent
- Quran occurrences
- 24 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.
A father, begetter, or parent; in the dual, the two parents, father and mother.
The Quranic dual forms refer collectively to both parents, while the singular masculine form denotes a father or begetter.
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Selected Quran examples
وَالِدَة
wālidah
- Part of speech
- Active participle · Mother
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
A mother or female parent.
The Quranic singular and plural forms refer to a mother or mothers; the word is substantivized as the feminine parent term.
- Lane · entry 45734
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Selected Quran examples
وَلِيد
walīd
- Part of speech
- Noun · Child
- Quran occurrences
- 7 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.
A newborn or young child; in the plural, children or young boys.
The term is especially applied near the time of birth and may continue through childhood; the Quranic plural denotes children or young boys in its respective contexts.
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Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:83وَبِٱلْوَٰلِدَيْنِand with [the] parents
- 2:116وَلَدًۭا ۗa son
- 2:180لِلْوَٰلِدَيْنِfor the parents
- 2:215فَلِلْوَٰلِدَيْنِ(is) for parents
- 2:233۞ وَٱلْوَٰلِدَٰتُAnd the mothers
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 34 Classical meanings
وَلَدَ
Figuratively, to produce, yield, or bring forth something.
Used of things such as land or nights that metaphorically bring forth or produce an outcome.
- Lane · entry 45716
وَلَّدَ
To assist a woman or female animal in giving birth; to act as a midwife.
A causative Form II use describing assistance in delivery.
- Lane · entry 45717
وَلَّدَ
To make a woman the mother of children.
A causative use distinct from assisting the delivery itself.
- Lane · entry 45717
وَلَّدَ
To rear, educate, or bring up a person.
A derived Form II use applied to upbringing rather than physical birth.
- Lane · entry 45717
وَلَّدَ
To innovate, originate, or generate something.
A figurative Form II use applied to language, stories, or other newly produced things.
- Lane · entry 45717
أَوْلَدَ
To approach the time of giving birth or to be about to bring forth.
Used of a woman or female animal nearing delivery, and by extension of people nearing the time of having children.
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أَوْلَدَ
To make a girl or woman the mother of a child.
A causative Form IV use describing the result of making someone a mother.
- Lane · entry 45718
تَوَلَّدَ
To become generated, produced, or originated from something else.
The source may be expressed with مِنْ or عَنْ; the construction presents the thing as arising from another.
- Lane · entry 45719
تَوَالَدَ
To multiply through propagation and beget one another.
A reciprocal Form VI use describing increase by reproduction.
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اِسْتَوْلَدَ
To render a woman pregnant or get her with child.
The source records this Form X use with an explicit qualification that some authorities disallow the competing Form IV expression in this sense.
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وَلَد
In the expression أَيُّ وَلَدِ الرَّجُلِ هُوَ, an unidentified man or person.
An idiomatic use illustrated by the question of what sort of man someone is.
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لِدَة
A person born at the same time as another; a coetanean or contemporary in birth.
Applied to either a male or female peer of the same birth period; the initial waw is treated as elided in the lexical explanation.
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وِلَاد
Pregnancy.
A nominal use for the state of carrying a child or young one.
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وَلُود
Prolific; breeding or bringing forth abundantly.
Applied to a female human or animal that bears many offspring.
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وَلِيد
A boy, youth, youthful servant, or slave.
A specialized and partly figurative extension from childhood; a female servant may be called وليدة, and a female slave may retain that designation even when older.
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أُمُّ الوَلِيد
A domestic hen.
A fixed lexical expression rather than a general meaning of وليد.
- Lane · entry 45730
وَلِيد
In the idiom لَا يُنَادَى وَلِيدُهُ, a situation so absorbing or formidable that a child is not called out to; by extension, a state of difficulty, abundance, or unrestricted plenty.
The idiom is reported with more than one contextual application, including distress and abundance; related expressions describe land or food whose abundance permits unrestricted use.
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وُلُودِيَّة
Infancy, boyhood, or girlhood; the state of being a child.
A noun naming the period in which a person is a وليد or وليدة.
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وُلُودِيَّة
Rudeness, coarseness, churlishness, or illiterateness.
A figurative or specialized use describing deficiency in gentleness or knowledge of affairs.
- Lane · entry 45732
وَلَّادَة
Highly productive of good.
A figurative nominal use describing companionship that generates beneficial results.
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وَالِد
A female parent or pregnant animal that has borne or is bearing young.
This lexical application includes a woman and a pregnant animal; it is kept separate from the Quranic masculine parent sense.
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وَالِد
A pregnant ewe or goat.
A specific animal use of the parent/bearing term.
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وَالِد
A prolific ewe or goat that bears abundantly.
A specialized animal use emphasizing repeated or plentiful bearing.
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وَالِد
In the expression مِنْ شَرِّ وَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ, a parent and what the parent has begotten.
The expression is attested in a traditional prayer formula and has competing interpretive applications; its literal parent-and-offspring construction is retained without selecting among those interpretations.
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مَوْلِد
A person's place of birth.
A locative noun referring to where someone was born.
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مُولِد
A woman or ewe or she-goat about to bring forth.
An active-participial noun for one approaching delivery.
- Lane · entry 45736
مِيلَاد
The time of a person's birth.
A temporal noun referring to when someone was born.
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مُوَلَّد
A person of non-Arabian extraction born or raised among Arabs, or one born in a Muslim territory or household according to the reported usages.
The term has several closely related social applications, including a person raised with Arab children and educated in their manner, or one with only one Arab parent.
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مُوَلَّد
A post-classical poet of the class following the early Islamic poets.
A technical literary classification based on the poet's later period and the subsequent development of Arabic.
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مُوَلَّد
A post-classical, modernized, or non-genuine Arabic word, phrase, or language.
A technical linguistic use for language not belonging to the original Arabian dialects or for expressions introduced by later speakers.
- Lane · entry 45739
مُوَلَّد
Anything innovated or newly introduced.
A general figurative use extending the idea of later generation or production.
- Lane · entry 45739
مُوَلَّد
A forged or fabricated writing.
A specialized use applied to a document whose claimed authenticity is not genuine.
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مُوَلَّدَة
Unverified evidence.
A specialized use for evidence that has not been authenticated.
- Lane · entry 45739
مُوَلِّدَة
A midwife.
The feminine active-participial noun denotes one who assists in childbirth.
- Lane · entry 45740
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The dual and possessive QAC groups for وَالِد are presented under the masculine parent citation form, while the feminine singular and plural are presented under وَالِدَة.
The contextual rendering of مَوْلُودٌ لَهُ as “the father” is a constructional interpretation; the supplied lexical evidence directly establishes the passive-participial relation “one born” and its equivalence with وَلِيد.
The family or tribe interpretation associated with وُلْد is reported as Quran-associated, but Lane's printed citation uses the historical notation “lxxi. 20”; it has not been converted into an unverified modern verse location.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The Lane citation for the family/tribe interpretation in lane-unit:wld:45724:g1:main does not securely match the supplied QAC occurrence at 71:21, so the interpretation is represented without assigning it a modern Quran example location.