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ب-د-ل

Ba-Dal-Lam

2 words from this root family

About this root

Ba-Dal-Lam (ب-د-ل) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: istabdala (to exchange / to return), tabādala (to exchange (Form VI)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 44 times in 40 verses, across 25 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:59.

Themes: Shopping, Verbs, Advanced Verbs

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
اِسْتَبْدَلَ
istabdala
to exchange / to returnverb, A2Prices & Bargaining
تَبَادَلَ
tabādala
to exchange (Form VI)verb, B1Verbs of Achievement

In the Quran

فَبَدَّلَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ قَوْلًا غَيْرَ ٱلَّذِى قِيلَ لَهُمْ فَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ رِجْزًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْسُقُونَ

But those who did wrong changed the word which had been told them for another saying, and We sent down upon the evil-doers wrath from heaven for their evil-doing.

Quran 2:59
أَمْ تُرِيدُونَ أَن تَسْـَٔلُوا۟ رَسُولَكُمْ كَمَا سُئِلَ مُوسَىٰ مِن قَبْلُ ۗ وَمَن يَتَبَدَّلِ ٱلْكُفْرَ بِٱلْإِيمَـٰنِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَآءَ ٱلسَّبِيلِ

Or would ye question your messenger as Moses was questioned aforetime? He who chooseth disbelief instead of faith, verily he hath gone astray from a plain road.

Quran 2:108
وَإِنْ أَرَدتُّمُ ٱسْتِبْدَالَ زَوْجٍ مَّكَانَ زَوْجٍ وَءَاتَيْتُمْ إِحْدَىٰهُنَّ قِنطَارًا فَلَا تَأْخُذُوا۟ مِنْهُ شَيْـًٔا ۚ أَتَأْخُذُونَهُۥ بُهْتَـٰنًا وَإِثْمًا مُّبِينًا

And if ye wish to exchange one wife for another and ye have given unto one of them a sum of money (however great), take nothing from it. Would ye take it by the way of calumny and open wrong?

Quran 4:20

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).

Word cards with examples

A2verb
اِسْتَبْدَلَ
istabdala

to exchange / to return

Example
أُريدُ اِسْتِبْدال هذا الحِذاء.
urīdu istibdāl hādha al-ḥidḥāʾ.
I want to exchange these shoes.
B1verb
تَبَادَلَ
tabādala

to exchange (Form VI)

Example
تَبادَلَ الطُّلابُ الأَفكارَ في الحِصَّة.
tabādala ṭ-ṭullābu l-afkāra fī l-ḥiṣṣa.
The students exchanged ideas in class.

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