Quranic root
خضد
kh · ḍ · d
The root centers on bending or yielding in something soft, with extensions to breaking, removing thorns, and the resulting soft or broken material.
The primary orientation is bending a soft thing without fully breaking it. Related uses extend this to breaking or removing thorns, detached pieces of moist wood or plants, and figurative bodily weakness or languor.
- Maqāyīs · row 1601
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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.
مَخْضُود
makhḍūd
- 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.
Having its thorns broken off or removed; thornless, said of the lote-tree.
The Quranic use describes the sidr or lote-trees of 56:28.
- Lane · entry 19370
- Mufradāt · row 414
Selected Quran examples
Quran 56:28word 3
“thornless”
Having its branches bent under the abundance of fruit.
An alternative Quranic interpretation of مَخْضُود in 56:28; it describes the branches rather than the removal of thorns.
- Lane · entry 19370
Selected Quran examples
Quran 56:28word 3
“thornless”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 56:28مَّخْضُودٍۢthornless
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 18 Classical meanings
خَضَدَ
To break wood, a branch, a twig, or another soft thing so that its parts do not separate.
The corresponding intransitive use may describe wood or branches breaking while remaining connected.
- Lane · entry 19362
خَضَدَ
To bend wood, a branch, or a twig without breaking it; in the camel-neck construction, to bend or break another camel’s neck, hence to engage it in such combat.
The bending use is also attested in the corresponding intransitive form.
- Lane · entry 19362
- Lane · entry 19365
خَضَدَ
To break soft or moist fruit into pieces.
- Lane · entry 19362
خَضَدَ
To cut off, pull off, or remove soft or supple material, especially the thorns of trees.
- Lane · entry 19362
خَضَدَ
To eat vehemently, crunching moist or soft food.
The usage is applied both to a person eating vigorously and to a horse eating in a coarse biting or crunching manner.
- Lane · entry 19362
خَضِدَ
To become shrunken and shriveled, said of fruit.
- Lane · entry 19362
انْخَضَدَ
To become broken into pieces or crushed, said of fresh or moist fruit.
- Lane · entry 19365
تَخَضَّدَ
To sway or bend the body from side to side because of languor.
The usage is associated with bodily weakness and is compared with تَثَنَّى.
- Lane · entry 19364
خَضَدٌ
Feebleness or weakness in a plant.
- Lane · entry 19366
خَضَدٌ
A bodily ailment affecting the limbs without amounting to a fracture, or bodily languor and pain accompanied by laziness.
In خَضَدُ السَّفَرِ, it denotes the fatigue and weariness caused by travel.
- Lane · entry 19366
خَضَدٌ
Detached or broken pieces of moist or soft wood, branches, twigs, papyrus, or similar soft plant material.
The term may also be applied to broken pieces of soft produce such as cucumbers.
- Lane · entry 19366
خَضَدٌ
A soft or flaccid plant or tree without thorns.
- Lane · entry 19366
خَضِدٌ
Languid and unable to rise because of bodily pain and weakness.
- Lane · entry 19367
خَضَادٌ
A soft or flaccid tree without thorns.
- Lane · entry 19368
خَضُودٌ
A horse that eats by biting or crunching.
- Lane · entry 19369
خَضِيدٌ
Broken, said of wood, a branch, or a twig whose parts remain connected.
- Lane · entry 19370
أَخْضَدُ
Bent or inclined from side to side because of languor.
- Lane · entry 19371
مِخْضَدٌ
A vehement eater, one who eats coarsely, quickly, or with rudeness.
- Lane · entry 19372
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The single Quranic occurrence in 56:28 has two reported lexical interpretations: a lote-tree with thorns removed, and a tree whose branches bend under abundant fruit. The latter is an alternative interpretation, not a separate Quran occurrence.