Arabic root

ج-و-د

Jim-Waw-Dal

3 words from this root family

About this root

Jim-Waw-Dal (ج-و-د) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: jayyidun (good), tajwīd (beautification / proper Quran recitation rules), jawda (quality).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 2 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 11:44.

Themes: Adjectives, Basics, Quranic, Shopping

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
جَيِّدٌ jayyidun	good	adjective, A1	Describing Things - Core Adjectives
تَجْوِيدٌ tajwīd	beautification / proper Quran recitation rules	noun, B2	Advanced Quranic & Islamic Terminology
جَوْدة jawda	quality	noun, A2	Prices & Bargaining

In the Quran

وَقِيلَ يَـٰٓأَرْضُ ٱبْلَعِى مَآءَكِ وَيَـٰسَمَآءُ أَقْلِعِى وَغِيضَ ٱلْمَآءُ وَقُضِىَ ٱلْأَمْرُ وَٱسْتَوَتْ عَلَى ٱلْجُودِىِّ ۖ وَقِيلَ بُعْدًا لِّلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ

And it was said: O earth! Swallow thy water and, O sky! be cleared of clouds! And the water was made to subside. And the commandment was fulfilled. And it (the ship) came to rest upon (the mount) Al-Judi and it was said: A far removal for wrongdoing folk!

Quran 11:44

إِذْ عُرِضَ عَلَيْهِ بِٱلْعَشِىِّ ٱلصَّـٰفِنَـٰتُ ٱلْجِيَادُ

When there were shown to him at eventide lightfooted coursers

Quran 38:31

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

A1adjective

جَيِّدٌ

jayyidun

good

Example

هَذَا كِتَابٌ جَيِّدٌ.

hādhā kitābun jayyidun.

This is a good book.

Root: ج-و-د Adjectives Basics

Grammar

Feminine: jayyida (جَيِّدَةٌ). 'Jayyid jiddan' means 'very good'.

B2noun

تَجْوِيدٌ

tajwīd

beautification / proper Quran recitation rules

Example

وَرَتِّلِ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْتِيلًا

wa-rattili al-Qurʾāna tartīlā

And recite the Quran with measured recitation (73:4)

Root: ج-و-د Quranic

Grammar

Form II maṣdar (تَفْعِيل). From جَوَّدَ (to make excellent). While تَرْتِيلٌ (measured recitation) is the Quranic term, tajwīd is the science that codifies proper recitation rules.

Culture

Tajwīd is the art and science of reciting the Quran with proper pronunciation, rhythm, and melody - preserving the exact way it was revealed.

A2noun

جَوْدة

jawda