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و-د-د

Waw-Dal-Dal

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Waw-Dal-Dal (و-د-د) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: al-Wadūd (The Most Loving (divine name)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 29 times in 28 verses, across 18 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:96. The form الْوَدُودُ (The Most Loving (divine name)) accounts for 2 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
الْوَدُودُ
al-Wadūd
The Most Loving (divine name)noun, A22×Divine Names and Attributes

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In the Quran

وَلَتَجِدَنَّهُمْ أَحْرَصَ ٱلنَّاسِ عَلَىٰ حَيَوٰةٍ وَمِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا۟ ۚ يَوَدُّ أَحَدُهُمْ لَوْ يُعَمَّرُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ وَمَا هُوَ بِمُزَحْزِحِهِۦ مِنَ ٱلْعَذَابِ أَن يُعَمَّرَ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ بَصِيرٌۢ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ

And thou wilt find them greediest of mankind for life and (greedier) than the idolaters. (Each) one of them would like to be allowed to live a thousand years. And to live (a thousand years) would be no means remove him from the doom. Allah is Seer of what they do.

Quran 2:96
وَلَئِنْ أَصَـٰبَكُمْ فَضْلٌ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ لَيَقُولَنَّ كَأَن لَّمْ تَكُنۢ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُۥ مَوَدَّةٌ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ مَعَهُمْ فَأَفُوزَ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا

And if a bounty from Allah befell you, he would surely cry, as if there had been no love between you and him: Oh, would that I had been with them, then should I have achieved a great success!

Quran 4:73
وَٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ ثُمَّ تُوبُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهِ ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّى رَحِيمٌ وَدُودٌ

Ask pardon of your Lord and then turn unto Him (repentant). Lo! my Lord is Merciful, Loving.

Quran 11:90

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

A2noun
الْوَدُودُ
al-Wadūd

The Most Loving (divine name)

Example
وَهُوَ الْغَفُورُ الْوَدُودُ
wa-huwa al-Ghafūru al-Wadūd
And He is the Forgiving, the Most Loving (85:14)
Grammar

Intensive adjective (faʿūl) pattern. From the root و-د-د meaning love/affection. Related: مَوَدَّةٌ (love, affection).

Culture

One of the 99 Beautiful Names of God. Indicates God's active, overflowing love for His creation.

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