Quranic root
فزز
f · z · z
A root centered on lightness and states near it, including fright, eagerness, restlessness, and loss of steadiness.
The semantic development extends from becoming light or restless to causing agitation, unsteadiness, separation, expulsion, or prompt response. The noun فَزّ also denotes a light or active man and a calf, explained by its lightness or restlessness.
- Maqāyīs · row 3574
- Lane · entry 34072
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- Lane · entry 34077
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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.
اِسْتَفَزَّ
āistafazza
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form X
- Form
- X
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
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, incite, or unsettle someone, making the person light, unsteady, or ready to move.
A transitive Form X use for producing agitation or loss of steadiness; the Quranic construction may express incitement by means of a voice or similar influence.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 17:64word 1
“And incite”
To incite someone into prompt obedience or submission.
A distinct causative construction in which the person's agitation results in ready compliance with the speaker's will.
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To unsettle or drive someone from a land or abode.
Used with مِنْ and a place to express dislodging or expulsion; a related interpretation emphasizes frightening the person into prompt flight.
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- Mufradāt · row 1110
Selected Quran examples
Quran 17:76word 3
“(to) scare you”
Quran 17:103word 3
“drive them out”
To slay.
A reported alternative interpretation of a Quranic Form X usage; the historical citation is not assigned a modern verse location here because it is not independently identified among the supplied QAC occurrences.
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Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 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 13 Classical meanings
فَزَّ
To become frightened or afraid; of the heart, to heave from fear.
Form I intransitive use; the heart expression describes its heaving as a result of fear.
- Lane · entry 34072
فَزَّ
To turn away from someone; to separate oneself from him and become alone.
Form I construction with عَنْ.
- Lane · entry 34072
فَزَّ
To become excited with ardour or eagerness.
A Form I state of heightened energy or enthusiasm.
- Lane · entry 34072
فَزَّ
To frighten and disturb, remove, or unsettle someone from his place, causing his courage to flee.
Form I causative use with a person and a place or position.
- Lane · entry 34072
فَزَّ
Of a wound, to become moist and discharge its contents; of water, to ooze; and of sweat, to exude.
A bodily-fluid or liquid use, including a reported application to water.
- Lane · entry 34072
فَزَّزَ
To render someone powerful or strong and make him overcome.
Form II transitive use.
- Lane · entry 34073
اِفْتَزَّ
To overcome; to become powerful or strong and prevail.
Form VIII use, with an inchoative or resultant sense of strength and victory.
- Lane · entry 34075
اِسْتَفَزَّ
To incite someone toward folly, ignorance, levity, or wrong conduct so that he swerves from sound judgment.
A classical Form X construction with عَنْ and an opinion, judgment, or right sentiment.
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اِسْتَفَزَّ
To deceive or beguile someone so as to cast him into destruction.
A classical Form X causative use describing harmful deception.
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فَزٌّ
A light or active man.
Nominal use of فَزٌّ as a description of a person's activity or lightness.
- Lane · entry 34077
فَزٌّ
The offspring of a wild cow.
A noun explained by the calf's lightness or restlessness; its plural is أَفْزَازٌ.
- Lane · entry 34077
فَزَّةٌ
A leap accompanied by disquiet or fright.
Feminine noun for a frightened or uneasy leap.
- Lane · entry 34078
مُسْتَفَزّ
Uneasy or excited in posture; of a horse, ready and excited to leap and run.
Used in expressions for sitting uneasily or being poised for vigorous movement. The horse expression is transmitted with a likely textual correction in the cited lexical material.
- Lane · entry 34079
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied QAC data contains three occurrences, while the lexical evidence discusses additional Quranic constructions and reported interpretations; no unsupplied location is presented as a Quran example.
Historical Lane Quran citations are retained only as lexical evidence and are not mechanically converted into modern verse keys.
The Form X senses meaning incitement to obedience and slaying are reported Quranic interpretations, but their cited locations are not independently represented in the supplied QAC occurrence list.