# Kaf-Ra-Dal — قرد (qrd)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to cling to the ground, lie in dust, become abject or mean. qiradatan - apes, monkeys.
- **Derived forms:** قِرَدَة (3)

## Verses containing this root

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 65

- **Form in this verse:** قِرَدَةً — qiradatan · "apes"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · accusative case · indefinite

وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ الَّذ۪ينَ اعْتَدَوْا مِنْكُمْ فِي السَّبْتِ فَقُلْنَا لَهُمْ كُونُوا قِرَدَةً خَاسِـ۪ٔينَۚ

Walaqad AAalimtumu allatheenaiAAtadaw minkum fee assabti faqulna lahum koonooqiradatan khasi-een

And you had known those among you who transgressed the Sabbath; and We said to them: “Be despised apes!”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-65.md_

### 5. Surah Al-Ma'idah, Verse 60

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْقِرَدَةَ — l-qiradata · "[the] apes"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · accusative case

قُلْ هَلْ اُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِشَرٍّ مِنْ ذٰلِكَ مَثُوبَةً عِنْدَ اللّٰهِۜ مَنْ لَعَنَهُ اللّٰهُ وَغَضِبَ عَلَيْهِ وَجَعَلَ مِنْهُمُ الْقِرَدَةَ وَالْخَنَاز۪يرَ وَعَبَدَ الطَّاغُوتَۜ اُو۬لٰٓئِكَ شَرٌّ مَكَاناً وَاَضَلُّ عَنْ سَوَٓاءِ السَّب۪يلِ

Qul hal onabbi-okum bisharrin min thalikamathoobatan AAinda Allahi man laAAanahu Allahuwaghadiba AAalayhi wajaAAala minhumu alqiradata walkhanazeerawaAAabada attaghooti ola-ika sharrun makananwaadallu AAan sawa-i assabeel

Say thou: “Shall I inform you of worse than that as a recompense with God? He whom God cursed and with whom He was wroth and made of them apes and swine and servants of idols: those are worse in standing and further astray from the right path.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-maidah/verse-60.md_

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 166

- **Form in this verse:** قِرَدَةً — qiradatan · "apes"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · accusative case · indefinite

فَلَمَّا عَتَوْا عَنْ مَا نُهُوا عَنْهُ قُلْنَا لَهُمْ كُونُوا قِرَدَةً خَاسِـ۪ٔينَ

Falamma AAataw AAan ma nuhooAAanhu qulna lahum koonoo qiradatan khasi-een

And when they scorned what they had been forbidden, We said to them: “Be despised apes!”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-166.md_

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