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ا ر ض
Alif-Ra-Dad
General Root Meaning
To rotate, bring forth herbs abundantly. Land abundant, fruitful, productive, luxuriant with herbage. Place for alighting or abiding. To tarry, await, expect, be patient. ""Earth, as opposed to heaven: and the ground, as meaning the surface of the earth, on which we tread, and sit, and lie"". Good land. Remain, fixed, tarry in expectation [on the ground]. Heavy, slow, sluggish, inclining, or propending to the ground. Submissive. A carpet, anything that is spread. A tremor, vertigo arising from a relaxed state. Wood-fretter, termite.