Quranic root
عزو
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Attribution and affiliation: assigning a person to a lineage or associating people with one another.
The evidence develops from asserting filial relationship to naming affiliated companies or groups, including the Quranic plural عِزِينَ for separate or dispersed groupings. A secondary explanation connects the group noun with mutual patience and consolation.
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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.
عِزَةٌ
ʿizahun
- 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.
A group or company; in the Quranic plural, separate or dispersed groups.
The attested Quranic form is the plural عِزِينَ, describing groups present in a state of dispersion. An alternative explanation connects the group name with people mutually taking patience or consolation from one another, without changing the attested group reference.
- Lane · entry 3138
- Mufradāt · row 969
Selected Quran examples
Quran 70:37word 5
“(in) separate groups”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 70:37عِزِينَ(in) separate groups
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 6 Classical meanings
عَزَاهُ
To assert a person's filial relationship to a particular father; intransitively, to assert one's own relationship to him.
The transitive construction is used with إِلَى; an intransitive use with إِلَى or لِـ is also recorded.
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اعْتَزَى
To assert one's own filial relationship to another person.
Form VIII; used with إِلَى or لِـ.
- Lane · entry 3137
عِزَةٌ
A party or company of people, especially one conceived as mutually affiliated or allied.
The affiliation may be understood as based on birth or on mutual alliance; its plural forms include عِزُون, عُزُون, and عِزًى.
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عَزْوَى
A dialectal expression invoking or acknowledging favorable inclination, such as an appeal for mercy.
Dialectal; it also occurs in a saying functioning as an emphatic appeal or asseveration.
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بَنُو عَزْوَانَ
A named tribe of the jinn.
A proper name referring to a particular legendary group.
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عَزَاءٌ
The assertion of a filial relationship to a particular person.
A substantive associated with the derived forms اعتزى and تعزّى.
- Lane · entry 3142
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The singular citation form عِزَةٌ is used for the Quranic plural عِزِينَ.
The derivation of عِزِينَ has an alternative explanation associating it with mutual patience or consolation; this is retained as a usage note rather than a separate Quranic translation sense.