# Gayn-Ye-Dad — غيض (gyD)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/gyD

- **Meaning:** Became scarce or little in quantity, decreased, diminished, became deficient, fell short; sank into the earth, disappeared in the earth, went away into the earth or enters or collects, place where water sinks [applied to water]; an abortive fetus (not completely formed, less than seven months old)
- **Derived forms:** غِيضَ (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 11. Surah Hud, Verse 44

- **Form in this verse:** وَغِيضَ — waghīḍa · "And subsided"
  - **Grammar:** verb · passive · 3rd person, masculine, singular · past tense

وَق۪يلَ يَٓا اَرْضُ ابْلَع۪ي مَٓاءَكِ وَيَا سَمَٓاءُ اَقْلِع۪ي وَغ۪يضَ الْمَٓاءُ وَقُضِيَ الْاَمْرُ وَاسْتَوَتْ عَلَى الْجُودِيِّ وَق۪يلَ بُعْداً لِلْقَوْمِ الظَّالِم۪ينَ

Waqeela ya ardu iblaAAee maakiwaya samao aqliAAee wagheeda almaowaqudiya al-amru wastawat AAala aljoodiyyiwaqeela buAAdan lilqawmi aththalimeen

And it was said: “O earth: swallow thou thy water,” and: “O sky: desist thou,” and the water subsided and the matter was concluded. And it came to rest upon Al-Jūdī. And it was said: “Away with the wrongdoing people!”

_https://quran.so/surah-hud/verse-44.md_

### 13. Surah Ar-Ra'd, Verse 8

- **Form in this verse:** تَغِيضُ — taghīḍu · "fall short"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

اَللّٰهُ يَعْلَمُ مَا تَحْمِلُ كُلُّ اُنْثٰى وَمَا تَغ۪يضُ الْاَرْحَامُ وَمَا تَزْدَادُۜ وَكُلُّ شَيْءٍ عِنْدَهُ بِمِقْدَارٍ

Allahu yaAAlamu ma tahmilukullu ontha wama tagheedu al-arhamuwama tazdadu wakullu shay-in AAindahu bimiqdar

God knows what every female bears, and what the wombs decrease, and what they increase; and everything with Him is in measure.

_https://quran.so/surah-ar-rad/verse-8.md_

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