Quranic root
جرز
j · r · z
The root centers on cutting off or removing.
The recorded semantic range develops from cutting to vegetation being cut off or consumed, barren land, destruction, sharpness, voracious eating, dearth, emaciation, infertility, and a cough that cuts the throat.
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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.
جُرُزٌ
juruzun
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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.
Barren; stripped of plant growth.
In Quranic usage, it qualifies land or a surface made bare of vegetation. The reported explanations include vegetation cut off from its roots, consumed, or absent because of drying or lack of rain; these describe the same barren-land sense rather than separate meanings.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:8word 6
“barren”
Quran 32:27word 8
“[the] barren”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 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 18 Classical meanings
جَرَزَ
To cut or cut off.
A transitive Form I verb.
- Lane · entry 46488
جَرَزَ
To destroy, exterminate, or kill.
Used of the destruction or killing of a person or thing, including complete extirpation.
- Lane · entry 46488
جَرَزَ
To eat quickly.
A separate Form I verbal use.
- Lane · entry 46488
جَرُزَ
To eat much or voraciously, leaving nothing on the table; also, to eat quickly.
The meaning is verbal and describes a great or rapid eater.
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أَجْرَزَ
To journey through barren land; consequently, to suffer or become afflicted by dearth, scarcity, drought, or barrenness.
Used of people in the construction أَجْرَزَ القَوْمُ.
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أَجْرَزَ
Of a she-camel, to become lean or emaciated.
A Form IV use specifically attested with a she-camel.
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سَنَةٌ جَرَزٌ
A year of dearth, scarcity, drought, sterility, or barrenness.
A conventional nominal expression.
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جَرْزَةٌ
Extirpation or destruction.
Used in expressions for complete removal or destruction, including the proverbial expression لَنْ تَرْضَى شَانِئَةٌ إِلَّا بِجَرْزَةٍ.
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جُرْزَةٌ
A bundle or handful of qَتّ or similar herbage.
A concrete noun for a gathered bundle or handful.
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جَرْزٌ
Cutting with a sword; a sword-cut.
A nominal use for the act or result of cutting by sword.
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جُرَازٌ
A cutting or penetrating sword; one that cuts sharply or cuts off utterly.
Applied to a sword, including one characterized by exceptional sharpness or complete severing power.
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جُرَازٌ
A devourer and breaker of trees.
A figurative application to a she-camel, likening its eating to the action of a cutting sword.
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جَرُوزٌ
A voracious eater who leaves nothing behind; by extension, a voracious eating animal.
Applied to people and animals, including a man, woman, camel, or she-camel; rapid eating may also be included.
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جَارِزٌ
Barren; of a woman, infertile.
Applied primarily to land and figuratively to a woman.
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جَارِزٌ
Dry and rugged land enclosed by sand or by a level tract.
The adjective is especially associated with such land in or around sea islands.
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مُجْرِزَةٌ
Lean or emaciated.
Applied to a she-camel.
- Lane · entry 46500
جَارِزٌ
A severe, throat-cutting cough.
A figurative extension of the root’s cutting notion, used of the intensity of the cough.
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ذُو جَرَزٍ
Thick, hard, or solid; also said of a camel.
A reported Classical expression understood as transferred from the rough, hard character of barren land.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic lexical sense is barren or vegetation-deprived land. The lexical discussion records differing explanatory causes, including lack of rain, drying, and vegetation consumed; it also reports a divergent interpretation involving land that retains much water. These are treated as interpretive variants, not additional Quranic senses.