Quranic root
ذكو
dh · k · w
The root is oriented toward intensification, manifest completion, or the bringing of an inherent quality to full expression: fire blazes, perception becomes sharp, maturity is reached, and an animal's life is brought to its legally defined completion.
The evidence connects the basic idea of completeness with blazing heat, pungent or manifest fragrance, intellectual sharpness, full maturity, and the technical legal sense of slaughter as the release of an animal's natural heat.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
ذَكَّى
dhakkā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- Quran occurrences
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To slaughter an animal in the prescribed legal manner, thereby rendering it lawful for consumption.
A transitive Form II use with an animal as object; in the Quranic construction, it denotes attaining the legally valid slaughter of an animal rather than merely killing it by any means.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:3word 21
“you slaughtered”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 5:3ذَكَّيْتُمْyou slaughtered
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 21 Classical meanings
ذَكَتِ / ذَكًا / ذَكٍ
To blaze, flame, or burn brightly or intensely; blazing or flaming as an epithet of fire.
The verbal noun ذَكًا denotes the blazing of fire, while ذَكٍ may describe a fire as blazing or flaming.
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ذَكَا / ذَكِيٌّ
To emit a strong fragrance; fragrant, pungent, or strongly odorous.
Applied to musk and to an odor, whether sweet or fetid; the adjective may describe the strength or pungency of the odor.
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ذَكِيَ / ذَكَاءُ / ذَكِيٌّ
Sharpness or quickness of mind, perception, intelligence, understanding, sagacity, skill, or knowledge.
Primarily applied to a person; it may also describe sharpness or keenness of spirit in an animal such as a camel.
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ذَكَا
To be legally slaughtered and consequently legally clean or lawful.
A Form I usage reported as belonging to some speakers or authorities; it is distinct from the Quran-attested Form II verb.
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ذَكَاةٌ / ذَكَا
The cleanness or purity acquired by ground when it becomes dry after being affected by impure moisture.
A tropical or assumed extension of the legal-cleanness sense, expressed in the saying ذَكَاةُ الأَرْضِ يُبْسُهَا.
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ذَكَّى
To make a fire blaze or burn brightly; to supply it fully with fuel or light a lamp.
A causative Form II use with fire or a lamp as object.
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ذَكَّى
To sharpen or quicken the intellect.
Reported of a medicine or similar agent, with the intellect as the object or effect.
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ذَكَّى
To become old, advanced in age, or fully grown.
Reported as a use said of a person and, by extension, of a horse or similar animal; the evidence also associates it with attaining full growth or age.
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ذَكَاةٌ
Legal slaughter of an animal for food in the manner prescribed by law.
A noun synonymous with تَذْكِيَةٌ and ذَبْحٌ in the legal sense. In the expression ذَكَاةُ الجَنِينِ ذَكَاةُ أُمِّهِ, the lawful slaughter of the fetus is understood to follow the lawful slaughter of its mother.
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ذُكْوَةٌ
Fuel thrown onto a fire to make it blaze, flame, or burn up; also a blazing or flaming coal.
The form is reported with damma; the coal sense is a related concrete application.
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ذَكْوَانٌ
A kind of tree, especially a small tree of the type called سَرْح.
A singular plant noun with the plural ذَكَاوِينُ.
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ذَكَاءُ
Fullness or completeness of age; maturity or the attainment of full strength.
Applied to a person's or animal's age, including the age at which full youthful strength or physical maturity has been reached.
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ذُكَاءُ
The sun.
A determinate, imperfectly declinable proper-like noun derived from the brightness of blazing fire.
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ابْنُ ذُكَاءَ
Dawn or daybreak.
A poetic expression explained through the light of the rising sun.
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ذَكِيٌّ
Slaughtered in the prescribed legal manner; legally slaughtered and lawful.
A passive-like adjective applied to an animal whose lawful slaughter has been completed.
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جِلْدٌ ذَكِيٌّ
A skin taken from an animal slaughtered in the prescribed legal manner.
A conventional tropical application of ذَكِيٌّ to the product of a legally valid slaughter.
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أَذْكَى
To kindle or inflame war.
An assumed tropical Form IV use.
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أَذْكَى
To send scouts or watchers against someone.
A Form IV construction with the scouts as the sent agents.
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اِسْتَذْكَى
To approach sexually with force or press vehemently upon a female.
An apparent tropical Form X construction describing the stallion's sexual approach; the example does not establish a general restriction on the object's species or gender.
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مُذَكٍّ
Old, fully mature, or full-grown; especially a mature, experienced horse of complete strength.
Applied to people, animals, and particularly horses that have passed the relevant stage of teething and attained mature strength; the term may also describe an experienced and disciplined elder.
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مُذَكِّيَةٌ
A cloud that has rained repeatedly or time after time.
An assumed tropical application associated with repeated attainment of the condition denoted by the root.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic surface form is the inflected second-person plural ذَكَّيْتُمْ, while the public headword is normalized to the Form II perfect citation form ذَكَّى.
The Form I legal-cleanness usage and several derived figurative extensions are explicitly reported as limited, assumed, or attributed usages rather than presented as the unqualified primary sense.