ردى

Arabic

Root
ر د ي (r-d-y)

Pronunciation

  • Noun: IPA(key): /ra.dan/
  • Verb: IPA(key): /rad.daː/

Noun

رَدًى • (radan) m

  1. verbal noun of رَدِيَ (radiya) (form I)
    1. death, destruction
      • 11th–12th century CE, Ibn Zuhr, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
        يَا غُصْنَ نَقَا مُكَلَّلًا بِٱلذَّهَبِ – أَفْدِيكَ مِنَ ٱلرَّدَى بِأُمِّي وَأَبِي
        yā ḡuṣna naqā mukallalan bi-ḏ-ḏahabi – ʔafdīka mina r-radā biʔummī waʔabī
        Oh branch of the sand dune wreathed in gold – I ransom you from death by my mother and my father

Declension

Verb

رَدَّى • (raddā) II, non-past يُرَدِّي‎ (yuraddī)

  1. to cause the death of, to smite
  2. (figurative) to annihilate, to raze

Conjugation

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