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و-ر-د

Waw-Ra-Dal

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Waw-Ra-Dal (و-ر-د) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: istawrada (to import (Form X)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 11 times in 9 verses, across 7 of the 114 suras. The first is in 11:98.

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Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
اِسْتَوْرَدَ
istawrada
to import (Form X)verb, B1Verbs of Thinking

In the Quran

يَقْدُمُ قَوْمَهُۥ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ فَأَوْرَدَهُمُ ٱلنَّارَ ۖ وَبِئْسَ ٱلْوِرْدُ ٱلْمَوْرُودُ

He will go before his people on the Day of Resurrection and will lead them to the Fire for watering-place. Ah, hapless is the watering-place (whither they are) led.

Quran 11:98
وَجَآءَتْ سَيَّارَةٌ فَأَرْسَلُوا۟ وَارِدَهُمْ فَأَدْلَىٰ دَلْوَهُۥ ۖ قَالَ يَـٰبُشْرَىٰ هَـٰذَا غُلَـٰمٌ ۚ وَأَسَرُّوهُ بِضَـٰعَةً ۚ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌۢ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ

And there came a caravan, and they sent their waterdrawer. He let down his pail (into the pit). He said: Good luck! Here is a youth. And they hid him as a treasure, and Allah was Aware of what they did.

Quran 12:19
وَنَسُوقُ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ وِرْدًا

And drive the guilty unto hell, a weary herd,

Quran 19:86

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

B1verb
اِسْتَوْرَدَ
istawrada

to import (Form X)

Example
تَستَورِدُ الدَّولَةُ النَّفطَ مِنَ الخارِج.
tastawridu d-dawlatu n-nafṭa mina l-khārij.
The country imports oil from abroad.

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