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وَقُودٌ

Root: وقد

Full Definition

وَقُودٌ Fire-wood; but it is only so called when kindled; as also وِقَادٌ and وَقِيدٌ: or any fuel; anything with which fire is kindled, or made to burn, burn up, burn brightly or fiercely, blaze, or flame: or the blaze, or flame, of fire, which one sees.
2 وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَٱلْحِجَارَةُ [Kur. ii. 22; and lxvi. 6; The fuel whereof shall be men and stones].
3 See also 1. In the Kur. lxxxv. 5, it is most properly rendered as an Verbal.Noun; and some in this case read الوُقُود.
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