Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and Al Mawrid — All in One Search

رِدٌّ

Root: رد

Full Definition

رِدٌّ A support, or stay, of a thing: a refuge; an asylum. A poet says, فَكُنْ لَهُ مِنَ البَلَايَا رِدَّا يارَبِّ أَدْعُوكَ إِلَاهًا فَرْدَا meaning [O my Lord, I call Thee one God; then be Thou to him] a refuge from trials: and رِدَّا occurs in a reading of verse 34 of ch. xxviii. of the Kur; meaning as above; or thus written and pronounced for رِدْءًا, on account of the pause, after suppressing the ء.
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mawrid

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Try Free

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more