Arabic root

ق-د-م

Qaf-Dal-Mim

3 words from this root family

About this root

Qaf-Dal-Mim (ق-د-م) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: qadīmun (old / ancient), qadima (to arrive / to come), qaddama (to present / to offer / to introduce).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 48 times in 48 verses, across 37 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:95. The form قَدَّمَ (to present / to offer / to introduce) accounts for 27 of them.

Themes: Adjectives, Basics, Verbs, Motion, Communication, Advanced Verbs

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
قَدِيمٌ qadīmun	old / ancient	adjective, A1	3×	Describing Things - Core Adjectives
قَدِمَ qadima	to arrive / to come	verb, A1	2×	Action Verbs - Miscellaneous
قَدَّمَ qaddama	to present / to offer / to introduce	verb, A1	27×	Action Verbs - Miscellaneous

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

In the Quran

وَلَن يَتَمَنَّوْهُ أَبَدًۢا بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌۢ بِٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ

But they will never long for it, because of that which their own hands have sent before them. Allah is aware of evil-doers.

Quran 2:95

يَقْدُمُ قَوْمَهُۥ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ فَأَوْرَدَهُمُ ٱلنَّارَ ۖ وَبِئْسَ ٱلْوِرْدُ ٱلْمَوْرُودُ

He will go before his people on the Day of Resurrection and will lead them to the Fire for watering-place. Ah, hapless is the watering-place (whither they are) led.

Quran 11:98

قَالُوا۟ تَٱللَّهِ إِنَّكَ لَفِى ضَلَـٰلِكَ ٱلْقَدِيمِ

(Those around him) said: By Allah, lo! thou art in thine old aberration.

Quran 12:95

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).