Arabic root

ا-ر-ض

Alif-Ra-Dad

1 word from this root family

About this root

Alif-Ra-Dad (ا-ر-ض) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: arḍ (earth / land / ground).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 461 times in 440 verses, across 80 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:11. The form أَرْضٌ (earth / land / ground) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
أَرْضٌ arḍ	earth / land / ground	noun, A1	461×	The Natural World in the Quran, Weather Patterns

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا تُفْسِدُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ

And when it is said unto them: Make not mischief in the earth, they say: We are peacemakers only.

Quran 2:11

ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ فِرَٰشًا وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بِنَآءً وَأَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءً فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِۦ مِنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ رِزْقًا لَّكُمْ ۖ فَلَا تَجْعَلُوا۟ لِلَّهِ أَندَادًا وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

Who hath appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy; and causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you. And do not set up rivals to Allah when ye know (better).

Quran 2:22

ٱلَّذِينَ يَنقُضُونَ عَهْدَ ٱللَّهِ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مِيثَـٰقِهِۦ وَيَقْطَعُونَ مَآ أَمَرَ ٱللَّهُ بِهِۦٓ أَن يُوصَلَ وَيُفْسِدُونَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْخَـٰسِرُونَ

Those who break the covenant of Allah after ratifying it, and sever that which Allah ordered to be joined, and (who) make mischief in the earth: Those are they who are the losers.

Quran 2:27

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).