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رعد

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Etymology 1

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Root
ر ع د (r ʕ d)
4 terms

Verb

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رَعَدَ (raʕada) I (non-past يَرْعَدُ (yarʕadu) or يَرْعُدُ (yarʕudu), verbal noun رَعْد (raʕd))

  1. to thunder
    Synonym: أَرْعَدَ (ʔarʕada)
  2. to appall
Conjugation
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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رَعْد (raʕdm (plural رُعُود (ruʕūd))

  1. verbal noun of رَعَدَ (raʕada) (form I)
  2. thunder
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:19-20:
      أَوْ كَصَيِّبٍ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَاءِ فِيهِ ظُلُمَاتٌ وَرَعْدٌ وَبَرْقٌ يَجْعَلُونَ أَصَابِعَهُمْ فِي آذَانِهِمْ حَذَرَ ٱلْمَوْتِ [] ۝ يَكَادُ ٱلْبَرْقُ يَخْطَفُ أَبْصَارَهُمْ ۖ كُلَّمَا أَضَاءَ لَهُمْ مَشَوْا فِيهِ وَإِذَا أَظْلَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ قَامُوا
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    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 13:12-13:
      هُوَ ٱلَّذِي يُرِيكُمُ ٱلْبَرْقَ خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا وَيُنْشِئُ ٱلسَّحَابَ ٱلثِّقَالَ ۝ وَيُسَبِّحُ ٱلرَّعْدُ بِحَمْدِهِ وَٱلْمَلَائِكَةُ مِنْ خِيفَتِهِ وَيُرْسِلُ ٱلصَّوَاعِقَ فَيُصِيبُ بِهَا مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَهُمْ يُجَادِلُونَ فِي ٱللّٰهِ وَهُوَ شَدِيدُ ٱلْمِحَالِ
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Declension
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Descendants
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  • Maltese: ragħad
  • Moroccan Arabic: رعد (raʕd)
  • Persian: رعد (ra'd)
  • Swahili: radi
See also
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Moroccan Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic رَعْد (raʕd).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /raʕd/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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رعد (raʕdm (plural رعود (rʕūd) or رعودة (rʕūda), diminutive رعيد (rʕiyyid))

  1. thunder

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic رَعْد (raʕd). Found widely very early on, so that Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (glʾnʾk' /⁠ɣarrānāg⁠/, thunder) is not at all attested in New Persian.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? ra'd
Dari reading? ra'd
Iranian reading? ra'd
Tajik reading? raʾd

Noun

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Dari رعد
Iranian Persian
Tajik раъд

رعد (ra'd)

  1. thunder
    Synonym: تندر (tondar)
    • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “Suhrāb”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎[1]:
      چو آواز او رعد غرنده نیست
      چو بازوی او تیغ برنده نیست
      čō āwāz-i ō ra'd ğurranda nēst
      čō bāzū-yi ō tēğ burranda nēst
      Thunder does not roar as well as his shouts,
      The blade does not cut as well as his arms.
      (Classical Persian romanization)

Derived terms

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