Quranic root
هزز
h · z · z
The root denotes disturbance and movement in a thing: shaking, quivering, or being set into motion.
From physical agitation, the lexicon develops related uses for self-movement, brisk animation, growth stirred by freshness, sound, commotion, and trials that throw people into turmoil.
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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.
هَزَّ
hazza
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To shake strongly; to set something in motion.
In the Quranic occurrence, the verb is the feminine singular imperative and is construed with بِجِذْعِ; the trunk is to be shaken or set in motion toward the addressee.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:25word 1
“And shake”
اِهْتَزَّ
āihtazza
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- Quran occurrences
- 4 occurrences
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To become moved, stirred, or quivering.
An intransitive or quasi-passive use describing an object or living thing that enters a state of motion or agitation.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 27:10word 5
“moving”
To become stirred with fresh growth and rise into vegetation.
Used of earth or vegetation after rain, where movement is associated with renewed freshness and the emergence or increase of plant growth.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:5word 63
“it gets stirred”
Quran 41:39word 11
“it is stirred (to life)”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 19:25وَهُزِّىٓAnd shake
- 22:5ٱهْتَزَّتْit gets stirred
- 27:10تَهْتَزُّmoving
- 28:31تَهْتَزُّmoving
- 41:39ٱهْتَزَّتْit is stirred (to life)
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 18 Classical meanings
هَزَّ
To walk with an elegant, proud, self-satisfied gait; to behave with self-conscious pride.
Used in expressions involving shaking the shoulders or sides as a manner of walking or bearing oneself.
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هَزَّ
To impart brisk movement or eager animation: to make camels or people lively and prompt, cause a pace or journey to bring someone quickly onward, or make someone cheerful and ready to act.
A figurative extension of causing movement, including urging animals by song and stimulating a person toward generosity or good action.
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هَزَّ
To cause a plant or herbage to grow tall.
Used of winds or rains as the cause of the vegetation’s upward growth.
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مَهَزَّةٌ
The property of vibrating or quivering when shaken.
Used in the expression for a spear that vibrates when it is shaken.
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اِهْتَزَّ
To quiver in flowing motion, or to dart or shoot with a quivering motion.
Used of water in its running and of a star in its descent or shooting.
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اِهْتَزَّ
To move quickly or make a commotion and clamour.
Used of a procession, cavalcade, or other moving train.
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اِهْتَزَّ
To become brisk, cheerful, eager, or actively responsive to a matter.
Used of camels urged by singing, a person ready to do good, a heart moved by joyful affection, or—figuratively—those who rejoice at an honored person’s death.
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هَزْهَزَ / تَهَزْهَزَ
To subdue or render submissive; to become subdued or submissive.
The active and quasi-passive forms express corresponding sides of the same subduing relation.
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هَزَّةٌ
A woman’s brisk eagerness and rejoicing to do evil or mischief.
The lexical entry explicitly applies this noun to a woman; the definition does not generalize that application beyond the stated usage.
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هِزَّةٌ
Briskness, sprightliness, alacrity, or cheerful readiness, especially a disposition toward liberality, kindness, and beneficence.
Also used of the briskness of camels when urged on by their driver.
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هِزَّةٌ
A quick camel pace or manner of going, or the commotion of a procession or cavalcade.
The term may describe the movement of a train as it travels quickly or is thrown into commotion.
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هِزَّةٌ
A repeated or murmuring sound or noise, including the sound of boiling, thunder, a mill, or wind.
Of wind, the term can also describe the lightness and quickness of its blowing; it may include the confused sound associated with a moving procession.
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هَزَائِزُ
Difficulties, afflictions, or calamities.
A plural form reported as having no singular.
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كَوْكَبٌ هَازٌّ
A star shooting or darting down, or quivering as it does so.
An adjectival description of the star’s rapid, quivering descent.
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سَيْفٌ هَزْهَازٌ / هُزْهُزٌ
A sword characterized by fine, vigorous, or graceful vibration.
A descriptive expression for the quality of the sword’s movement.
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مَاءٌ هُزَهِزٌ
Water quivering in its flow.
A descriptive nominal expression for water in visibly agitated movement.
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رَجُلٌ هُزَهِزٌ
A light or nimble man.
A descriptive expression for a person characterized by lightness of movement.
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هَزَاهِزُ
Seditions, discords, wars, or calamities that throw people into commotion.
A plural term for upheavals in which people are agitated by conflict, trials, or other trying events.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form I Quran occurrence is an inflected feminine singular imperative; the public headword is normalized to the perfect citation form هَزَّ.
The Form VIII Quran occurrences support both general movement and the specialized stirring of rain-touched earth or vegetation into growth; these are kept as separate senses.