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Arabic root

ر-و-د

Ra-Waw-Dal

2 words from this root family

About this root

Ra-Waw-Dal (ر-و-د) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: yurīdu (he wants), arāda (to want / to wish).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 148 times in 120 verses, across 47 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:26. The form أَرَادَ (to want / to wish) accounts for 139 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Basics, Cognition

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
يُرِيدُ
yurīdu
he wantsverb, A1Essential Verbs
أَرَادَ
arāda
to want / to wishverb, A1139×Action Verbs - Communication

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

In the Quran

أَمْ تُرِيدُونَ أَن تَسْـَٔلُوا۟ رَسُولَكُمْ كَمَا سُئِلَ مُوسَىٰ مِن قَبْلُ ۗ وَمَن يَتَبَدَّلِ ٱلْكُفْرَ بِٱلْإِيمَـٰنِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَآءَ ٱلسَّبِيلِ

Or would ye question your messenger as Moses was questioned aforetime? He who chooseth disbelief instead of faith, verily he hath gone astray from a plain road.

Quran 2:108
وَرَٰوَدَتْهُ ٱلَّتِى هُوَ فِى بَيْتِهَا عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ وَغَلَّقَتِ ٱلْأَبْوَٰبَ وَقَالَتْ هَيْتَ لَكَ ۚ قَالَ مَعَاذَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ رَبِّىٓ أَحْسَنَ مَثْوَاىَ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ

And she, in whose house he was, asked of him an evil act. She bolted the doors and said: Come! He said: I seek refuge in Allah! Lo! he is my lord, who hath treated me honourably. Lo! wrong-doers never prosper.

Quran 12:23
فَمَهِّلِ ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًۢا

So give a respite to the disbelievers. Deal thou gently with them for a while.

Quran 86:17

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

A1verb
يُرِيدُ
yurīdu

he wants

Example
يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْعَرَبِيَّةَ.
yurīdu an yataʿallama al-ʿarabiyyata.
He wants to learn Arabic.
Grammar

Form IV verb. Followed by 'an' (أَنْ) + subjunctive verb for 'wants to (do something)'.

A1verb
أَرَادَ
arāda

to want / to wish

Example
أرادَ الولدُ أن يلعبَ
arāda al-waladu an yalʿaba
The boy wanted to play
Grammar

Form IV hollow verb. Past: arāda, Present: yurīdu. Often followed by an + subjunctive.

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