Arabic root

خ-ض-ر

Kha-Dad-Ra

2 words from this root family

About this root

Kha-Dad-Ra (خ-ض-ر) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: khuḍār (vegetables), akhḍar (green).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 8 times in 8 verses, across 7 of the 114 suras. The first is in 6:99. The form أَخضَر (green) accounts for 1 of them.

Themes: Food, Basics, Adjectives, Colors, Shopping

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
خُضَار khuḍār	vegetables	noun, A1		Fruits & Vegetables
أَخضَر akhḍar	green	adjective, A1	1×	Adjectives - Appearance & Beauty

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

In the Quran

وَقَالَ ٱلْمَلِكُ إِنِّىٓ أَرَىٰ سَبْعَ بَقَرَٰتٍ سِمَانٍ يَأْكُلُهُنَّ سَبْعٌ عِجَافٌ وَسَبْعَ سُنۢبُلَـٰتٍ خُضْرٍ وَأُخَرَ يَابِسَـٰتٍ ۖ يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمَلَأُ أَفْتُونِى فِى رُءْيَـٰىَ إِن كُنتُمْ لِلرُّءْيَا تَعْبُرُونَ

And the king said: Lo! I saw in a dream seven fat kine which seven lean were eating, and seven green ears of corn and other (seven) dry. O notables! Expound for me my vision, if ye can interpret dreams.

Quran 12:43

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءً فَتُصْبِحُ ٱلْأَرْضُ مُخْضَرَّةً ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَطِيفٌ خَبِيرٌ

Seest thou not how Allah sendeth down water from the sky and then the earth becometh green upon the morrow? Lo! Allah is Subtile, Aware.

Quran 22:63

ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلشَّجَرِ ٱلْأَخْضَرِ نَارًا فَإِذَآ أَنتُم مِّنْهُ تُوقِدُونَ

Who hath appointed for you fire from the green tree, and behold! ye kindle from it.

Quran 36:80

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).