Quranic root
غيظ
gh · y · ẓ
A distress or intense anger that reaches a person through another's action.
The root's relational core develops into causing anger, experiencing or containing intense rage, and expressing it audibly; its derived forms also extend to reciprocal emulation and figurative heat.
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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.
غَاظَ
ghāẓa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 anger or enrage someone; to cause intense anger.
A transitive causative use. In the Quranic occurrences, the provoked party is expressed directly or through بِـ for the means or agents causing the anger.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:120word 34
“that angers”
Quran 48:29word 42
“that He (may) enrage”
غَائِظٌ
ghāʾiẓun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Causing intense anger; enraging. In the Quranic construction, conduct that provokes retaliation against those responsible.
The supplied Quran occurrence is the plural غَائِظُونَ. The retaliation nuance is tied to the Quranic construction and is not a general replacement for the basic meaning “enraging.”
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:55word 3
“(are) surely enraging”
غَيْظٌ
ghayẓun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 6 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.
Intense anger or rage; an inwardly burning state of anger.
The Quranic noun occurs in contexts of suppressed anger, rage endured by an aggrieved party, and rage represented as producing an extreme physical reaction. Lexical distinctions that limit غَيْظ to latent or powerless anger are reported separately and are not treated as universal.
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Selected Quran examples
تَغَيُّظٌ
taghayyuẓun
- Part of speech
- Verbal 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.
The manifestation or expression of intense rage; in the Quranic use, an audible raging or boiling sound.
The Quranic construction joins the term with زفير and presents the rage as something heard. It therefore expresses outward manifestation, not merely the inward state of anger.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 25:12word 8
“raging”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:119ٱلْغَيْظِ ۚ[the] rage
- 3:119بِغَيْظِكُمْ ۗin your rage
- 3:134ٱلْغَيْظَthe anger
- 9:15غَيْظَ(the) anger
- 9:120يَغِيظُthat angers
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 9 Classical meanings
غَيْظٌ
In some lexical distinctions, inward or latent anger, especially anger affecting one who lacks the power to act; also the onset or outbreak of anger.
These are reported distinctions from غضب and alternative lexical descriptions, not an absolute restriction on every use of غَيْظ.
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غَايَظَ
To anger one another; by extension, to vie or emulate someone while striving to overcome or surpass him.
A reciprocal Form III use. The emulative sense is explained as arising because emulation may produce mutual anger.
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مُغَايَظَةٌ
Mutual acting in a leisurely manner.
A rare, figurative usage reported for the verbal noun.
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تَغَيَّظَ
Of midday or summer midday: to become vehemently hot.
A figurative use describing the heat of the time of day.
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اِغْتَاظَ
To become angry or enraged; to be affected with intense anger.
The cause may be expressed with مِنْ, including مِنْ لَا شَيْءٍ, “because of nothing.”
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غِيَاظٌ
Repeated provocation intended to distress, anger, or enrage someone.
Attested in the expression فَعَلَ ذٰلِكَ غِيَاظَكَ, “he did that to distress or anger you time after time.”
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أَغْيَظُ
More or most angering or enraging; in a stated idiom, the one most severely punished.
A comparative or superlative form of غَائِظٌ. The punishment interpretation belongs to the cited idiomatic example.
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مَغِيظٌ
Affected with anger; angered or enraged.
A passive-result participial description.
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مُغْتَاظَةٌ
An appellation for a stone cooking pot.
A figurative name based on the contrast between the pot's stillness and its boiling contents.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The reported contrast between غَيْظ and غضب as latent versus manifest anger, or as anger of the powerless versus the powerful, varies among the cited authorities and is not treated as an absolute rule.