# Kaf-Dad-Dad — قضض (qDD)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to bore/pierce, fall/tumble down. inqadda (vb. 7) to threaten to fall down.
- **Derived forms:** يَنقَضَّ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 77

- **Form in this verse:** يَنقَضَّ — yanqaḍḍa · "collapse"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of infi'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

فَانْطَلَقَا۠ حَتّٰٓى اِذَٓا اَتَيَٓا اَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍۨ اسْتَطْعَمَٓا اَهْلَهَا فَاَبَوْا اَنْ يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا ف۪يهَا جِدَاراً يُر۪يدُ اَنْ يَنْقَضَّ فَاَقَامَهُۜ قَالَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَتَّخَذْتَ عَلَيْهِ اَجْراً

Fantalaqa hattaitha ataya ahla qaryatin istatAAamaahlaha faabaw an yudayyifoohuma fawajadafeeha jidaran yureedu an yanqadda faaqamahuqala law shi/ta lattakhathta AAalayhi ajra

So they went forth. When they had come to the people of a city, they asked its people for food, but they refused them hospitality. And they found therein a wall upon the point of collapse, and he set it upright. He said: “If thou hadst wished, thou couldst have taken for it recompense.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-77.md_

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