Quranic root
أزز
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The root centers on movement, causing movement, and disturbance, especially the forceful agitation or impelling of someone or something.
Its attested lexical range extends from motion and agitation to urging, violent commotion, boiling and its sound, and several intensity-related applications such as sharpness, severe cold, rapid travel, and crowding.
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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.
أَزَّ
ʾazza
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 agitate and drive someone forcefully; hence to stir, urge, or incite them toward an action.
In تَؤُزُّهُمْ أَزًّا (19:83), the devils drive the unbelievers toward disobedience. The image is associated with the violent agitation of a boiling pot, and the expression is presented as stronger than ordinary shaking; the means of urging may be subtle or cunning even though its effect is forceful.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:83word 8
“inciting them”
أَزٌّ
ʾazzun
- 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.
Forceful driving, agitation, or incitement.
In أَزًّا (19:83), the noun characterizes the strong impelling expressed by تَؤُزُّهُمْ and evokes the agitation of a boiling pot.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:83word 9
“(with) incitement”
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 14 Classical meanings
أَزَّ
Of a cooking pot: to sound while boiling, or to boil, with the degree of vehemence varying by usage.
Used of the pot itself; أَزِيزٌ may denote the associated sound of boiling.
- Lane · entry 6597
أَزَّ
Of a cloud, to make a sound from afar.
The attested application is to a cloud sounding at a distance.
- Lane · entry 6597
أَزِيزٌ
The resonant sound of thunder or a millstone.
A characteristic sustained or loud sound produced by thunder or by the turning of a millstone.
- Lane · entry 6597
أَزَّ
To flame or blaze like fire in firewood, with lively motion or commotion.
Describes fire that is burning and moving vigorously.
- Lane · entry 6597
أَزَّ
To kindle a fire or make it burn fiercely.
This includes kindling fire beneath a cooking pot so that it boils.
- Lane · entry 6597
أَزَّ
To put a thing or person into violent motion or commotion; to stir or disquiet them.
A general stirring or agitating use, broader than the Quranic construction of impelling people toward disobedience.
- Lane · entry 6597
يَأْتَزُّ
To become angry, distressed, disquieted, or disturbed because of something.
Used with مِنْ to indicate the cause of the anger or distress.
- Lane · entry 6599
أَزَّةٌ
A sound or noise.
A general noun for an audible sound, without restriction to a particular source.
- Lane · entry 6600
أَزِيزٌ
Sharpness.
A nominal use meaning حِدَّةٌ, distinct from the sound-related uses of أَزِيزٌ.
- Lane · entry 6601
أَزَّ
To milk a she-camel forcefully.
The explicitly attested object is a she-camel.
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أَزَّ
To join one thing to another.
A transitive use describing the bringing together of two things.
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أَزِيزٌ
Severe cold.
The attested expression applies this noun to a night and explicitly contrasts it with a day.
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أَزِيزٌ
The intensity or rapid pace of travel; of wind, to drive travelers onward.
The lexical evidence includes both the intensity of travel and the use of wind as the force that drives people onward.
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أَزَزٌ
Of a house, full of people.
A descriptive use for a house crowded with occupants.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane records differing descriptions of the cooking-pot use, including simply boiling, boiling vehemently, and boiling without vehemence; the entry therefore preserves the sound/boiling meaning without imposing a single intensity level.