Quranic root
أزر
ʾ · z · r
The root centers on strength, force, and firmness, with related developments involving support, reinforcement, and securing or covering.
The evidence connects strengthening with tightening or girding, while also preserving independent branches for clothing, covering, vigorous growth, and mutual support.
- Maqāyīs · row 80
- Mufradāt · row 31
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- Quran-attested forms
- 3
- Quran senses
- 2
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
آزَرَ
ʾāzara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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 support, aid, or strengthen.
A transitive use; in the Quranic occurrence, the object is strengthened within the parable of growing vegetation.
- Mufradāt · row 31
Selected Quran examples
Quran 48:29word 35
“then strengthens it”
أَزْر
ʾazr
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Strength or power.
In the Quranic expression اشدد به أزري, the possessive form denotes the speaker’s strength or sustaining power.
- Lane · entry 6611
- Mufradāt · row 31
Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:31word 3
“my strength”
The back, as the bodily seat or support of strength.
In اشدد به أزري, this is an explicitly attested interpretation of the construction alongside the interpretation “strengthen my strength.”
- Lane · entry 6611
Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:31word 3
“my strength”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 22 Classical meanings
أَزَرَ
To surround or encompass something.
A Form I verbal use, including surrounding a thing.
- Lane · entry 6606
أَزَرَ
To strengthen the lower part or foundation of a building.
A Form I construction referring specifically to reinforcing a building at its base.
- Mufradāt · row 31
أَزَّرَ
To clothe or wrap someone with an izar.
A Form II causative use involving the garment إِزَار.
- Lane · entry 6607
أَزَّرَ
To cover a surface or area.
Used of herbage covering the ground.
- Lane · entry 6607
أَزَّرَ
To reinforce or strengthen a person or thing.
Especially used of casing and strengthening the lower part of a wall, but also used more generally.
- Lane · entry 6607
آزَرَ
To aid, assist, help, or strengthen someone.
A Form III lexical use, including mutual or directed assistance.
- Lane · entry 6608
آزَرَ
Of vegetation, to become tangled or luxuriant, with one part reaching and strengthening another.
A Form III use describing mutually reinforcing growth.
- Lane · entry 6608
آزَرَ
To equal, match, or correspond to something.
A Form III comparative or relational construction.
- Lane · entry 6608
تَأَزَّرَ
To grow strong or vigorous; of vegetation, to grow tall and luxuriant.
A Form V use describing the subject’s becoming strong; the evidence also relates it to being strengthened or having one’s support tightened.
- Mufradāt · row 31
اِئْتَزَرَ
To put on or wear an izar.
A Form VIII reflexive or intransitive clothing use; the form is also transmitted as اِيتَزَرَ.
- Lane · entry 6610
أَزْر
Weakness or infirmity.
A contrary signification reported for the noun; it is also reflected in one interpretation of the Quranic strengthening expression.
- Lane · entry 6611
أَزْر
Aid, assistance, or help.
A nominal use distinct from the noun’s sense of strength.
- Lane · entry 6611
أَزْر
The place or part of either flank where an izar is tied.
An anatomical and clothing-related noun use.
- Lane · entry 6611
إِزْرَة
A particular manner or mode of putting on or wearing an izar.
A noun describing the manner in which the garment is worn.
- Lane · entry 6614
إِزَار
A waist-wrapper or other covering garment; by extension, anything used to veil, conceal, or cover.
The garment may cover the lower body or be understood more generally as a covering.
- Lane · entry 6615
إِزَار
In a figurative girding expression, to prepare oneself for an affair or to abstain from sexual intercourse in preparation for religious service.
An idiomatic extension associated with girding or tightening the izar.
- Lane · entry 6615
إِزَار
Continence or chastity.
A figurative use in expressions describing someone as having a clean or good izar.
- Lane · entry 6615
إِزَار
One’s wife, oneself, or one’s wife and family, by metonymy.
The exact referent varies among the reported idiomatic explanations.
- Lane · entry 6615
إِزَار
A ewe.
A specialized lexical use also associated with the call إِزار إِزار used when calling a ewe to be milked.
- Lane · entry 6615
آزَر
Describing a horse or mare whose hindquarters or thighs are white, as though marked by an izar.
An adjective describing the distribution of the animal’s coloring.
- Lane · entry 6617
مُؤَزَّرَة
A ewe or she-goat black in the hindquarters, as though wearing a black izar.
A figurative passive-participial adjective based on the appearance of the animal’s coloring.
- Lane · entry 6620
مُؤَزَّر
Effective and powerful aid.
A figurative passive-participial expression for assistance made strong or effective.
- Lane · entry 6620
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The noun أَزْر is reported with contrary senses of strength and weakness; the Quranic occurrence is explained primarily as strength, with a separate back interpretation of the same construction.
The public verb is identified by QAC as Form IV آزرَ. The same surface form is treated as a Form III lexical entry in part of the Classical evidence, so that related evidence is retained separately rather than silently changing the Quranic morphology.
The evidence discusses آزر in Quran 6:74 as a proper name, but no corresponding QAC form group or occurrence is supplied here; it is not counted as a third Quranic form.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
Mufradat explicitly discusses the proper name آزر in 6:74, including competing explanations of its origin or meaning, but the supplied QAC packet contains no matching form group or word location for that item.
Mufradat mentions وازر/وزير while explicitly assigning that branch to the root beginning with و; the ministerial sense is therefore not assigned to أزر.