Arabic root

و-ع-د

Waw-Ayn-Dal

2 words from this root family

About this root

Waw-Ayn-Dal (و-ع-د) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: waʿada (to promise), mawʿid (appointment / date).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 151 times in 130 verses, across 51 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:51. The form وَعَدَ (to promise) accounts for 70 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Communication, Quranic, Work

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
وَعَدَ waʿada	to promise	verb, A1	70×	Action Verbs - Making & Creating
مَوْعِد mawʿid	appointment / date	noun, A2	12×	Work Skills & Technology

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

In the Quran

وَإِذْ وَٰعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰٓ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ ٱلْعِجْلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَأَنتُمْ ظَـٰلِمُونَ

And when We did appoint for Moses forty nights (of solitude), and then ye chose the calf, when he had gone from you, and were wrong-doers.

Quran 2:51

ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ يَعِدُكُمُ ٱلْفَقْرَ وَيَأْمُرُكُم بِٱلْفَحْشَآءِ ۖ وَٱللَّهُ يَعِدُكُم مَّغْفِرَةً مِّنْهُ وَفَضْلًا ۗ وَٱللَّهُ وَٰسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ

The devil promiseth you destitution and enjoineth on you lewdness. But Allah promiseth you forgiveness from Himself with bounty. Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing.

Quran 2:268

وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ لَمَوْعِدُهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

And lo! for all such, hell will be the promised place.

Quran 15:43

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).