Quranic root
ظعن
ẓ · ʿ · n
The root denotes departure or movement from one place to another.
The central sense of departing extends to journeying, the state and equipment of travel, travelers and mounts, as well as causative and passive formations connected with making someone depart or being made to depart.
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- Lane · entry 32556
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- Lane · entry 32565
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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.
ظَعْن
ẓaʿn
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Journeying, departure, or movement from one place to another.
In the Quranic expression يوم ظَعْنِكُمْ, it denotes the time or condition of travel and departure, contrasted with the time of residence or staying.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:80word 15
“(of) your travel”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 16:80ظَعْنِكُمْ(of) your travel
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 12 Classical meanings
أَظْعَنَ
To cause someone to journey, depart, or move away.
With بِهِ, the construction may also indicate journeying or departing with him.
- Lane · entry 32557
اِظَّعَنَ
To ride an animal in journeying or on departure.
The attested usage concerns taking an animal as a mount during travel.
- Lane · entry 32558
ظُعْنَة
A short journey.
- Lane · entry 32560
ظِعْنَة
A state, condition, mode, or manner of journeying or departing.
- Lane · entry 32561
ظِعَان
A rope used to bind a howdah or a load to a camel.
The term is associated with travel equipment because the rope is one of the means of journeying.
- Lane · entry 32562
ظَعُون
A camel prepared for work and for bearing burdens.
Some lexicographic usage applies the word more specifically to a camel ridden by a woman; the broader load-bearing sense is also attested.
- Lane · entry 32563
ظَعِينَة
A howdah or camel-borne vehicle used for travel, whether occupied by a woman or empty.
This is reported as the primary signification in one account; the term can also be extended from the vehicle to the woman associated with it.
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ظَعِينَة
A woman traveling in or associated with a howdah; also a man's wife.
Usage varies as to whether the woman must be in the howdah; the term is also extended to a woman outside it because she may travel with her husband.
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ظَعِينَة
A camel used as a mount for travel, especially one ridden by women.
This sense is reported as an attributed or alternative usage and is distinct from the howdah and woman senses.
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ظَاعِن
A person journeying, departing, or going from one place to another; a traveler.
It is contrasted with one who remains or resides, and may refer to travel for pilgrimage, warfare, or ordinary movement between towns.
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مِظْعَان
A horse, mare, or she-camel easy in pace.
The word describes ease of movement in the animal's gait.
- Lane · entry 32566
مَظْعُون
Made to journey, depart, or move away.
The form is originally construed with بِهِ, with the complement understood and omitted through frequent usage.
- Lane · entry 32567
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is the inflected form ظَعْنِ in ظَعْنِكُمْ; the public headword is the normalized citation form ظَعْن.
Lexical reports for ظَعِينَة vary between the howdah, the woman associated with it, and a travel mount; these alternatives are retained separately rather than resolved into one meaning.