Quranic root
ورد
w · r · d
The root has two principal semantic orientations: coming to or arriving at something, especially water, and a rose-like or reddish-yellow color.
The arrival sense extends from approaching water to destinations, routes, watering times, groups arriving, thirst, and figurative approaches. A distinct color branch develops around the rose and reddish-yellow shades, including descriptions of animals, vegetation, skies, and dyed objects.
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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.
وَرَدَ
warada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To come to, reach, or arrive at a destination, especially water; in the Quran, also to reach a place of punishment.
Arrival at a destination is expressed without necessarily entailing entry; in the fire passage, the destination is Hell and the context supplies the severe figurative application.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 21:99word 6
“they (would) have come to it”
Quran 28:23word 2
“he came”
أَوْرَدَ
ʾawrada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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To bring or lead someone to a destination, especially a watering-place; in the Quran, to lead people to the Fire.
The Form IV causative construction makes another person or group arrive at the destination; the Quranic fire usage is a figurative destination of punishment.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:98word 5
“and lead them”
مَوْرُود
mawrūd
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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That which is approached or visited; a destination or watering-place to which people are brought.
In the Quranic expression, it denotes the destination to which the people are led, with the Fire treated as a disastrous place of arrival.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:98word 9
“to which (they are) led”
وَارِد
wārid
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
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One who comes to or arrives at a destination.
The destination may be water or, in the Quranic eschatological passages, the Fire; the active participle describes those arriving or destined to arrive.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:71word 4
“(will be) passing over it”
Quran 21:98word 11
“will come”
A forerunner who goes ahead of a group to obtain water for them.
This specialized role is expressed in the account of Joseph's brothers, where the water-drawer precedes the group.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:19word 4
“their water drawer”
وَرِيد
warīd
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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A jugular or other major pulsating vein in the neck.
In the Quranic phrase حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ, the word occurs in the expression for the neck's jugular vein.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:16word 14
“(his) jugular vein”
وَرْدَة
wardah
- Part of speech
- Noun · Color term
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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Rose-colored or rose-red; a rose-like color.
In the Quran, the word describes the sky when it becomes red or roseate, compared with a rose.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 55:37word 5
“rose-colored”
وِرْد
wird
- Part of speech
- 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.
A coming to or arrival at water; the water or destination approached.
In the Quranic fire expression, the word applies the imagery of coming to water to arrival at Hell, a destination approached or reached.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:98word 8
“(is) the place”
Thirsty, or in the state of thirst associated with approaching water.
In the Quranic description of the sinners driven to Hell, the word is interpreted as describing their thirst or thirsty condition.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:86word 5
“thirsty”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 11:98فَأَوْرَدَهُمُand lead them
- 11:98ٱلْوِرْدُ(is) the place
- 11:98ٱلْمَوْرُودُto which (they are) led
- 12:19وَارِدَهُمْtheir water drawer
- 19:71وَارِدُهَا ۚ(will be) passing over it
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 44 Classical meanings
وَرَدَ
To arrive or be received; of a letter or similar communication, to reach its recipient.
An extended arrival construction used with messages and written communications.
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وَرَدَ
To run into error or venture into a destructive situation.
A figurative extension of entering or coming upon a harmful destination.
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وَرَدَ عَلَيْهِ
To befall someone as an overpowering matter or difficulty.
Used of something that comes upon a person and exceeds his ability to master it.
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وَرَدَ عَلَيْهِ
To oppose something or present itself as an objection to it.
Used of an objection or circumstance confronting an argument or position.
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وَرَدَ
To occur or appear, especially of a word, phrase, or similar expression.
A figurative occurrence use applied to linguistic expression.
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وَرَدَ، وُرِدَ
Of recurring fever, to attack; of a person, to suffer such an attack.
The active and passive constructions describe the periodic onset of fever and the person affected by it.
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وَرُدَ
To be of a bright or yellowish bay color, or of a red color tending toward yellow.
Used especially of a horse and its coat color.
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وَرْد
A flower or blossom of a tree or plant, especially the rose.
A collective noun; the predominant application is to the familiar rose.
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وَرْد
A bright reddish, roseate, or reddish-yellow color.
Applied to horses and lions, and to red horizons or nights; these are color descriptions rather than the Quranic sky construction listed under وَرْدَة.
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وَرْدَة
A bright or yellowish bay color, or a red color tending toward yellow.
A color term used in descriptions of a horse or similar color.
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وَرَّدَ
To dye something red or rose-colored, or to redden it.
Used of cloth and of applying a red coloring to a cheek.
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وَرَّدَ
Of a tree, to flower or blossom.
The derived verb describes the emergence of blossoms.
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وَارَدَ
To come to water together with another.
A reciprocal or accompanying water-arrival construction.
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تَوَارَدَ، مُوَارَدَة
Agreement or coincidence in ideas or expressions, as though arising from a common source.
Used of poets, thoughts, or expressions that independently converge.
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أَوْرَدَ
To adduce or cite evidence, speech, or a saying; to set forth or express a meaning.
A figurative causative use in argumentative or explanatory discourse.
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أَوْرَدَ
To make someone run into error.
A figurative causative construction distinct from physically leading someone to a place.
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أَوْرَدَ عَلَيْهِ
To bring wealth, property, or something beneficial to someone.
A causative transfer or bringing construction.
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أَوْرَدَ
To relate news or mention a thing.
A reporting or citation use of the causative verb.
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أَوْرَدَ وَأَصْدَرَ
To bring or drive something in and then take it away; in a related idiom, to begin and compel.
Used in paired expressions contrasting bringing in with sending away.
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تَوَرَّدَ
To enter or come into a town gradually, little by little.
Used of horses or a group entering progressively.
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تَوَرَّدَ
To become red, roseate, or rose-colored.
Attested especially of a cheek.
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تَوَارَدَ
To come to water together.
A reciprocal Form VI water-arrival construction.
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اِسْتَوْرَدَ
To desire or seek to come to water.
The Form X verb expresses seeking or desiring the arrival.
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وِرْد
The time, day, or turn appointed for coming to water.
A temporal use associated with repeated watering schedules.
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وِرْد
A company, herd, or flock coming to water; by extension, an army likened to such a group.
Applied to people, camels, birds, and figuratively to an army.
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وِرْد
A portion or share of water.
The noun denotes an allotted quantity rather than the act of arrival.
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وِرْد
The day or periodical attack of fever; also a name for such a fever.
The periodic onset is the more precise lexical interpretation.
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وِرْد
A portion of the night assigned for prayer.
A scheduled devotional portion, derived by extension from an appointed turn.
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وِرْد
A set portion of Quran recitation, prayer, or similar devotional practice undertaken at a particular time.
The portion is customarily imposed on oneself as a regular recitation or observance.
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وَرْد
Bold, daring, or courageous, especially of a man.
An adjectival use describing personal courage or forwardness.
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وَرْد
Saffron.
A lexical item for the spice or dye material.
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أَبُو الوَرْد
The penis, in a euphemistic or color-based designation.
An idiomatic anatomical expression motivated by the organ's redness.
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بِنْتُ وَرْدَان
A reddish beetle-like insect commonly found in baths and privies.
A fixed lexical name for the insect.
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مُنْتَفِخُ الوَرِيد
Bad-tempered or prone to anger.
An idiom literally describing a swollen jugular vein.
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وَارِد
A road or way by which people come to water; a route of approach.
Used adjectivally of a road, in opposition to a route by which people depart.
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وَارِد
Courageous, bold, or forward in affairs.
An adjectival characterization of a person.
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وَارِد
Long or extended so as to reach forward or downward.
Used of hair, a nose tip, a lip, a gum, branches, and other things; the examples do not impose an object-class restriction.
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إِيرَاد
Income or revenue.
A later figurative or technical nominal use.
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مَوْرِد
A place or route by which one comes to water; a watering-place or road of approach.
The noun may denote the destination itself or the way leading to it, including a main road.
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مَوَارِدُ أَمْر
Ways leading to or initiating a matter.
A figurative plural referring to approaches or means of entering into an affair.
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مَوْرِد
The time of coming to water.
A temporal extension of the watering-place noun.
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مَوْرِدُ مَثَل
The primary idea or thing signified by a parable or proverb.
A fixed figurative expression, correlative with the point or application of a parable.
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مَوْرُود
One attacked by recurring fever or suffering a periodic fever attack.
This is the fever-related participial use, distinct from the Quranic destination noun.
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مُوَرَّد
Dyed rose-colored or saffron-colored; reddened, especially of a garment or cheek.
Also used of a reddened mark produced by striking.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
For وَرَدَ and وِرْد, coming to a destination does not uniformly entail entering it; the Quranic interpretation of the eschatological arrival passage is explicitly debated.
The Quranic وِرْد in 19:86 preserves both the arrival-at-water image and the lexical interpretation 'thirsty'; the contextual gloss alone is not treated as an independent sense.