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Arabic root

ب-ي-ض

Ba-Ya-Dad

2 words from this root family

About this root

Ba-Ya-Dad (ب-ي-ض) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: bayḍa (egg), abyaḍ (white).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 12 times in 12 verses, across 10 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:187. The form أَبيَض (white) accounts for 8 of them.

Themes: Food, Basics, Adjectives, Colors

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
بَيْضَة
bayḍa
eggnoun, A1Food Basics - Bread, Rice & Staples
أَبيَض
abyaḍ
whiteadjective, A18×Adjectives - Appearance & Beauty

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

In the Quran

يَوْمَ تَبْيَضُّ وُجُوهٌ وَتَسْوَدُّ وُجُوهٌ ۚ فَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسْوَدَّتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ أَكَفَرْتُم بَعْدَ إِيمَـٰنِكُمْ فَذُوقُوا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ

On the Day when (some) faces will be whitened and (some) faces will be blackened; and as for those whose faces have been blackened, it will be said unto them: Disbelieved ye after your (profession of) belief? Then taste the punishment for that ye disbelieved.

Quran 3:106
وَنَزَعَ يَدَهُۥ فَإِذَا هِىَ بَيْضَآءُ لِلنَّـٰظِرِينَ

And he drew forth his hand (from his bosom), and lo! it was white for the beholders.

Quran 7:108
كَأَنَّهُنَّ بَيْضٌ مَّكْنُونٌ

(Pure) as they were hidden eggs (of the ostrich).

Quran 37:49

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

A1noun
بَيْضَة
bayḍa

egg

Example
أُرِيدُ بَيْضَتَيْنِ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ
urīdu bayḍatayni min faḍlika
I want two eggs please
Grammar

Plural: بَيْض (bayḍ). بَيْضَة is the singular unit noun

A1adjective
أَبيَض
abyaḍ

white

Example
الثَّلجُ أَبيَض
ath-thalju abyaḍ
The snow is white
Grammar

Feminine form: bayḍāʾ (بَيضاء). Colors pattern: afʿal (m.) / faʿlāʾ (f.).

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