Quranic root
ضيز
ḍ · y · z
The root centers on deficiency or injustice in apportionment, especially withholding someone’s due.
The lexical evidence links a deficient division with depriving a person of a right. The root’s etymological origin is reported as possibly deriving from wāw.
- Maqāyīs · row 2975
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
ضِيزَىٰ
ḍīzāā
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- 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.
Deficient or unjust; inequitable.
Used in the Quranic expression قِسْمَةٌ ضِيزَىٰ, describing an allocation or division as defective and unjust.
- Lane · entry 18170
- Mufradāt · row 884
Selected Quran examples
Quran 53:22word 4
“unfair”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 53:22ضِيزَىٰٓunfair
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 2 Classical meanings
ضَازَ
To deviate from the right course; to act unjustly, wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically, especially in judgment.
An intransitive lexical use, including the construction فِي الْحُكْمِ, “in judgment.”
- Lane · entry 18169
ضَازَهُ حَقَّهُ
To deprive or defraud someone of part or all of a right or due; to refuse or withhold it.
A transitive construction governing the person’s right or due.
- Lane · entry 18169