Quranic root
خمد
kh · m · d
A root orientation toward the subsiding of movement, heat, or flame and the resulting fall into stillness.
The basic image is a fire whose blaze quiets or goes out, with related developments for the abatement of fever, fainting or death, and silence or motionlessness. The causative Form IV expresses causing a blaze to subside or be extinguished.
- Maqāyīs · row 1642
- Lane · entry 20025
- Lane · entry 20026
- Lane · entry 20028
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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.
خَامِد
khāmid
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Dead and lifeless, silent as though a flame had gone out; extinguished in the sense of having lost vitality.
In the Quranic plural forms خَامِدِينَ and خَامِدُونَ, applied to people; the expression figuratively transfers the extinction of a fire's blaze to death and lifelessness.
- Lane · entry 20028
- Mufradāt · row 434
Selected Quran examples
Quran 21:15word 8
“extinct”
Quran 36:29word 8
“(were) extinguished”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 7 Classical meanings
خَمَدَ
Of a fire: to subside, its flame or blaze ceasing while its embers remain; also to die away and become completely extinguished.
An intransitive Form I usage describing the state or cessation of a fire's blaze.
- Lane · entry 20025
خَمَدَ
Of a fever: to abate, especially in its heat or vehemence.
A transferred Form I usage applied to fever or its intensity.
- Lane · entry 20025
- Mufradāt · row 434
خَمَدَ
Of a person: to faint or swoon; also, to die.
A Form I usage describing loss of consciousness or life.
- Lane · entry 20025
أَخْمَدَ
To cause a fire's flame or blaze to subside, leaving its embers unextinguished, or to extinguish the fire completely.
A transitive Form IV causative; the subject may be a person or the wind.
- Lane · entry 20026
أَخْمَدَ
To be or become still, motionless, and silent.
A figurative Form IV usage.
- Lane · entry 20026
خَمُّود
A place where fire is buried so that its blaze ceases, while its embers remain unextinguished.
A specialized noun for a fire-burying place.
- Lane · entry 20027
خَامِد
Silent, with no voice heard; still or motionless; figuratively, composed and submitting oneself to an affair or event.
A broader Classical active-participle usage, distinct from the Quranic application meaning dead or lifeless.
- Lane · entry 20028
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane's printed citation to the Yā-Sīn usage uses historical verse numbering; the modern example 36:29 follows the independently supplied QAC location.