egg
Plural: بَيْض (bayḍ). بَيْضَة is the singular unit noun
Ba-Ya-Dad
2 words from this root family
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
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
بَيْضَة bayḍa | egg | noun, A1 | Food Basics - Bread, Rice & Staples | |
أَبيَض abyaḍ | white | adjective, A1 | 8× | Adjectives - Appearance & Beauty |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
يَوْمَ تَبْيَضُّ وُجُوهٌ وَتَسْوَدُّ وُجُوهٌ ۚ فَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسْوَدَّتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ أَكَفَرْتُم بَعْدَ إِيمَـٰنِكُمْ فَذُوقُوا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَOn 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.
وَنَزَعَ يَدَهُۥ فَإِذَا هِىَ بَيْضَآءُ لِلنَّـٰظِرِينَAnd he drew forth his hand (from his bosom), and lo! it was white for the beholders.
كَأَنَّهُنَّ بَيْضٌ مَّكْنُونٌ(Pure) as they were hidden eggs (of the ostrich).
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).
Plural: بَيْض (bayḍ). بَيْضَة is the singular unit noun
Feminine form: bayḍāʾ (بَيضاء). Colors pattern: afʿal (m.) / faʿlāʾ (f.).