Quranic root
ذوق
dh · w · q
The root centers on testing or knowing something through tasting, with direct sensory perception providing the basis for broader experience.
From perceiving a taste—especially by sampling a small amount—the lexicon extends to trying or testing, undergoing conditions and consequences, and figurative intellectual or inward experience. Quranic usage prominently applies this extension to punishment, hardship, mercy, and other states.
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- Quran-attested forms
- 4
- Quran senses
- 63
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
ذَاقَ
dhāqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 36 occurrences
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 taste or perceive the flavor of something by the tongue; to sample food or drink.
The ordinary physical sense is associated with taking a small amount, in contrast with eating a large quantity. This quantitative association does not restrict the Quran's extended uses.
- Lane · entry 21859
Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:22word 4
“they both tasted”
Quran 78:24word 2
“they will taste”
To experience or perceive something directly, including undergoing a condition, consequence, harm, punishment, or other state, and thereby to try or test it.
The extended construction is not restricted to the mouth: it may concern other sensory objects or an experienced state. In the Quran it is used for tasting physical things and for undergoing consequences, punishment, death, and other conditions; the separate sexual idiom is a broader Classical Arabic use.
- Lane · entry 21859
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:95word 35
“that he may taste”
Quran 32:14word 1
“So taste”
أَذَاقَ
ʾadhāqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 22 occurrences
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 cause someone to experience or undergo something; to give someone a taste of a condition, consequence, punishment, hardship, mercy, or blessing.
A causative construction in which the object is made to experience the thing named. Quranic uses include both adverse experiences such as punishment, hunger, fear, and hardship and favorable experiences such as mercy and blessing; the object need not be food.
- Lane · entry 21861
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:10word 2
“We give him a taste”
Quran 41:27word 1
“But surely We will cause to taste”
ذَائِقٌ
dhāʾiqun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 5 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
One who tastes or experiences something directly.
In the supplied Quranic occurrences, the participle describes those who will taste or experience death or painful punishment; singular feminine and masculine plural forms are included under this citation headword.
- Lane · entry 21859
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 21:35word 3
“(will) taste”
Quran 37:31word 6
“(will) certainly taste”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:106فَذُوقُوا۟Then taste
- 3:181ذُوقُوا۟Taste
- 3:185ذَآئِقَةُ(will) taste
- 4:56لِيَذُوقُوا۟so that they may taste
- 5:95لِّيَذُوقَthat he may taste
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 13 Classical meanings
ذَاقَ
To experience sexual pleasure or sexual intercourse, expressed through the conventional euphemism of tasting.
A specialized Classical Arabic construction; it is kept distinct from the Quranic senses.
- Lane · entry 21859
ذَاقَ القَوْسَ
To pull a bowstring in order to test its strength and resilience.
A specialized construction referring to testing a bow by drawing its string.
- Lane · entry 21859
الذَّوْقُ
Intellectual or inward discernment and relish, especially sensitivity to the subtleties of language and poetry; figuratively, the experience of knowledge or faith as nourishment.
A figurative faculty of perception modeled on the sense of taste.
- Lane · entry 21859
ذَوَّقَ
To give someone something to taste.
Form II causation of the act of tasting.
- Lane · entry 21860
أَذَاقَ
To display or cause a quality to become known through experience, as when someone proves generous or a horse proves a good runner.
An idiomatic extension in which a quality becomes apparent after it has been experienced or observed.
- Lane · entry 21861
تَذَوَّقَ
To taste gradually or repeatedly; figuratively, to test a person's character or experience a separation.
The derived form emphasizes gradual or repeated tasting in the literal construction.
- Lane · entry 21862
تَذَاوَقَ
To handle or test something mutually, taking it in turn; specifically, to take spears from one another to test their qualities.
A reciprocal construction, especially attested of people testing weapons or their qualities by passing them between one another.
- Lane · entry 21863
اِسْتَذَاقَ
To seek to test a person and ascertain his inner character or condition.
A Form X construction of deliberate investigation by experience.
- Lane · entry 21864
اِسْتَذَاقَ لِـ
To become easy or feasible for someone, of an affair, poetry, or versification.
A distinct impersonal construction in which the matter becomes workable or comes easily to a person.
- Lane · entry 21864
ذَوَاقٌ
A thing tasted or sampled; figuratively, knowledge or discipline received as nourishment for the mind and soul.
The noun may denote either the tasted object or, in an extended expression, received intellectual nourishment.
- Lane · entry 21866
ذَوَّاقٌ
A person who repeatedly enters new marriages, marrying and divorcing quickly and not remaining long in one marital state.
An idiomatic personal description, with corresponding masculine and feminine usage.
- Lane · entry 21867
مَذَاقٌ
A place or time of tasting.
A noun of place or time derived from the act of tasting.
- Lane · entry 21868
مُسْتَذَاقٌ
Tried or tested and thereby known, of an affair or a person.
The description concerns something or someone whose qualities have been ascertained through experience.
- Lane · entry 21869
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The ordinary association of ذوق with a small amount is extended in Quranic usage to undergoing substantial punishment, hardship, mercy, and other conditions.
Lane's printed Quran references use historical citation conventions; the modern verse locations shown here are taken from the supplied QAC occurrences, not reconstructed from Lane's bracketed references.