و-ح-د
Waw-Ha-Dal
5 words from this root family
About this root
Waw-Ha-Dal (و-ح-د) has 5 words in the Fahm dictionary: wāḥid (one), al-aḥad (Sunday), tawḥīd (monotheism / oneness of God), waḥdāniyyah (divine unity / absolute oneness), and 1 more.
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 68 times in 67 verses, across 35 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:61. The form وَاحِد (one) accounts for 30 of them.
Themes: Numbers, Basics, Time, Quranic, Adjectives
Words from this root
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
وَاحِد wāḥid | one | numeral, A1 | 30× | Numbers 0-9 |
الْأَحَد al-aḥad | Sunday | noun, A1 | Days of the Week | |
تَوْحِيدٌ tawḥīd | monotheism / oneness of God | noun, A2 | Faith, Monotheism, and Hypocrisy | |
وَحْدَانِيَّةٌ waḥdāniyyah | divine unity / absolute oneness | noun, B2 | Advanced Quranic & Islamic Terminology | |
وَحيد waḥīd | alone / only / sole | adjective, A1 | Adjectives - Degree & Intensity |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
In the Quran
أَمْ كُنتُمْ شُهَدَآءَ إِذْ حَضَرَ يَعْقُوبَ ٱلْمَوْتُ إِذْ قَالَ لِبَنِيهِ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِنۢ بَعْدِى قَالُوا۟ نَعْبُدُ إِلَـٰهَكَ وَإِلَـٰهَ ءَابَآئِكَ إِبْرَٰهِـۧمَ وَإِسْمَـٰعِيلَ وَإِسْحَـٰقَ إِلَـٰهًا وَٰحِدًا وَنَحْنُ لَهُۥ مُسْلِمُونَOr were ye present when death came to Jacob, when he said unto his sons: What will ye worship after me? They said: We shall worship thy god, the god of thy fathers, Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac, One Allah, and unto Him we have surrendered.
وَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تُقْسِطُوا۟ فِى ٱلْيَتَـٰمَىٰ فَٱنكِحُوا۟ مَا طَابَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ مَثْنَىٰ وَثُلَـٰثَ وَرُبَـٰعَ ۖ فَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوا۟ فَوَٰحِدَةً أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَـٰنُكُمْ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ أَدْنَىٰٓ أَلَّا تَعُولُوا۟And if ye fear that ye will not deal fairly by the orphans, marry of the women, who seem good to you, two or three or four; and if ye fear that ye cannot do justice (to so many) then one (only) or (the captives) that your right hands possess. Thus it is more likely that ye will not do injustice.
قَالُوٓا۟ أَجِئْتَنَا لِنَعْبُدَ ٱللَّهَ وَحْدَهُۥ وَنَذَرَ مَا كَانَ يَعْبُدُ ءَابَآؤُنَا ۖ فَأْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَآ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّـٰدِقِينَThey said: Hast come unto us that we should serve Allah alone, and forsake what our fathers worshipped? Then bring upon us that wherewith thou threatenest us if thou art of the truthful!
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
Sunday
In the Arab world, Sunday is traditionally the first day of the week
monotheism / oneness of God
Form II maṣdar from وَحَّدَ (to make one/declare one). Related: أَحَدٌ (one), وَاحِدٌ (one/unique). The central theological concept of Islam.
Surah al-Ikhlāṣ (112) is called the essence of tawḥīd. The Prophet ﷺ said it equals one-third of the Quran in meaning.
divine unity / absolute oneness
Abstract noun (فَعْلَانِيَّة pattern). From وَاحِدٌ (one). The theological term for God's absolute oneness. Related to تَوْحِيدٌ (q220) but more abstract and philosophical.
Waḥdāniyyah is the most fundamental concept in Islamic theology - God is not merely 'one among many' but uniquely, absolutely One in essence, attributes, and actions.
alone / only / sole
Feminine form: waḥīda (وَحيدة). From the same root as wāḥid (واحِد, one) and waḥda (وَحدة, unity).