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ر-ع-د

Ra-Ayn-Dal

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About this root

Ra-Ayn-Dal (ر-ع-د) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: raʿd (thunder).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 2 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:19. The form رَعْد (thunder) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Nature Weather

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
رَعْد
raʿd
thundernoun, B12×Environmental Concepts

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

In the Quran

أَوْ كَصَيِّبٍ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فِيهِ ظُلُمَـٰتٌ وَرَعْدٌ وَبَرْقٌ يَجْعَلُونَ أَصَـٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِم مِّنَ ٱلصَّوَٰعِقِ حَذَرَ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ مُحِيطٌۢ بِٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ

Or like a rainstorm from the sky, wherein is darkness, thunder and the flash of lightning. They thrust their fingers in their ears by reason of the thunder-claps, for fear of death, Allah encompasseth the disbelievers (in His guidance, His omniscience and His omnipotence).

Quran 2:19
وَيُسَبِّحُ ٱلرَّعْدُ بِحَمْدِهِۦ وَٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ مِنْ خِيفَتِهِۦ وَيُرْسِلُ ٱلصَّوَٰعِقَ فَيُصِيبُ بِهَا مَن يَشَآءُ وَهُمْ يُجَـٰدِلُونَ فِى ٱللَّهِ وَهُوَ شَدِيدُ ٱلْمِحَالِ

The thunder hymneth His praise and (so do) the angels for awe of Him. He launcheth the thunderbolts and smiteth with them whom He will while they dispute (in doubt) concerning Allah, and He is mighty in wrath.

Quran 13:13

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

B1noun
رَعْد
raʿd

thunder

Example
سَمِعنا صَوتَ الرَّعدِ مِن بَعيد.
samiʿnā ṣawta r-raʿdi min baʿīd.
We heard the sound of thunder from afar.

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