Arabic root

ب-د-ا

Ba-Dal-Alif

2 words from this root family

About this root

Ba-Dal-Alif (ب-د-ا) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: badaʾa (to begin / to start), mabdaʾ (principle).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 15 times in 14 verses, across 11 of the 114 suras. The first is in 7:29. The form بَدَأَ (to begin / to start) accounts for 12 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Actions, Abstract Concepts

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
بَدَأَ badaʾa	to begin / to start	verb, A1	12×	Action Verbs - Communication
مَبدَأ mabdaʾ	principle	noun, B1		Values & Beliefs

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

In the Quran

قُلْ أَمَرَ رَبِّى بِٱلْقِسْطِ ۖ وَأَقِيمُوا۟ وُجُوهَكُمْ عِندَ كُلِّ مَسْجِدٍ وَٱدْعُوهُ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ ٱلدِّينَ ۚ كَمَا بَدَأَكُمْ تَعُودُونَ

Say: My Lord enjoineth justice. And set your faces upright (toward Him) at every place of worship and call upon Him, making religion pure for Him (only). As He brought you into being, so return ye (unto Him).

Quran 7:29

أَلَا تُقَـٰتِلُونَ قَوْمًا نَّكَثُوٓا۟ أَيْمَـٰنَهُمْ وَهَمُّوا۟ بِإِخْرَاجِ ٱلرَّسُولِ وَهُم بَدَءُوكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ ۚ أَتَخْشَوْنَهُمْ ۚ فَٱللَّهُ أَحَقُّ أَن تَخْشَوْهُ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

Will ye not fight a folk who broke their solemn pledges, and purposed to drive out the messenger and did attack you first? What! Fear ye them? Now Allah hath more right that ye should fear Him, if ye are believers.

Quran 9:13

أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ كَيْفَ يُبْدِئُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥٓ ۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ

See they not how Allah produceth creation, then reproduceth it? Lo! for Allah that is easy.

Quran 29:19

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).