Quranic root
وقذ
w · q · dh
The root centers on forceful striking with wood, especially a blow that causes severe pain, collapse, or death.
The central striking sense extends to the states produced by such force—prostration, weakness, illness, and distress—and to figurative overpowering. A separate lexical usage concerns involuntary milking that reduces a camel's milk and is distinguished from the central root analogy.
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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.
مَوْقُوذَةٌ
mawqūdhahun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
Killed by beating or a violent blow.
In its Quranic occurrence, the feminine passive participle refers substantivally to an animal killed by beating, among forms of carrion not killed by lawful slaughter.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:3word 13
“and that which is hit fatally”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 5:3وَٱلْمَوْقُوذَةُand that which is hit fatally
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 15 Classical meanings
وَقَذَهُ
To beat or strike violently, causing collapse, stupefaction, severe injury, or death; specifically, to break the skull or strike the upper neck so that the blow affects the brain and deprives the victim of reason.
The verb may describe beating a person, an animal, or another creature; the result may be incapacitation, near death, or death.
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وَقَذَهُ
To prostrate or knock someone down.
A resultative use distinct from the detailed striking sense.
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وَقِيذٌ
Prostrated or lying prostrate.
Passive adjectival use describing the resulting condition.
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وَقَذَهُ
To render someone still, quiet, or tranquil.
Figurative use, especially of clemency, forbearance, gravity, or fear of God restraining a person from unlawful action.
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وَقَذَهُ
To overcome someone or make him fall down.
Used of drowsiness and similar overpowering effects.
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وَقَذَهُ
To leave someone ill, infirm, or near death.
Figurative causative use explicitly applied to disease, grief, or religious service as the afflicting cause.
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وَقَذَهُ
To distress or trouble someone.
A figurative use in which something heard, such as a word or sentence, produces distress.
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وَقْذَةٌ
Lingering distress in the heart resulting from an earlier event.
Nominal use for a remaining inward burden or painful emotional impression.
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وُقِذَتْ
Of a she-camel, to be milked against her will, with the result that her milk becomes scant.
A separate lexical usage concerning involuntary or harmful milking.
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وَقِيذٌ
A weak person lacking fat or strength; also a slow, heavy person whose weakness seems to overpower him.
Adjectival use describing a person's bodily weakness, heaviness, or slowness.
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وَقِيذٌ
Violently ill or in a swoon, heavy with sickness and near death, with life and death uncertain.
Adjectival use for severe or clinging illness and a near-death stupor.
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وَقِيذَةٌ
A stone lying spread about; the plural is وَقَائِذُ.
A nominal usage for stones distributed or lying about on the ground.
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وَقِيذُ الجَوَانِحِ
Grief-stricken in the heart, as though the ribs enclosing it were broken and weakened by grief.
An idiomatic figurative description of intense inward grief.
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مَوْقِذٌ
An extremity of the body, or a place upon which a blow falls severely, including the elbow, shoulder joint, knee, or ankle-bone.
An anatomical noun; its plural is مَوَاقِذُ.
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مُوَقَّذَةٌ
A she-camel whose udder suffers disease or swelling from tight binding or from scant nursing by its young.
A specialized noun describing an udder affected by restrictive binding or problematic suckling.
- Lane · entry 45598
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quran has one occurrence, in 5:3, of the feminine passive participle مَوْقُوذَةٌ; the broader Classical meanings listed here belong to distinct derived forms or constructions and should not be treated as additional Quranic senses.
The involuntary-milking usage is explicitly distinguished from the root's central striking principle in the root-level evidence.