Quranic root
لزب
l · z · b
The root centers on the persistence, fixity, and adhesion of something so that it remains attached or does not readily separate.
The evidence extends this orientation from fixed or cohesive physical matter to firmness and necessity in figurative usage, while drought is portrayed as a condition that has become fixed in a year.
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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.
لَازِبٌ
lāzibun
- 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.
Firmly adhering, sticky, and cohesive.
In the Quranic expression مِنْ طِينٍ لَازِبٍ, describes clay characterized by strong adhesion and fixity.
- Lane · entry 9575
- Mufradāt · row 1300
Selected Quran examples
Quran 37:11word 12
“sticky”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 37:11لَّازِبٍۭsticky
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 13 Classical meanings
لَزَبَ
To be or remain fixed, settled, firm, or constant; of mud and the like, to adhere or stick.
The verb has both a general fixedness use and a physical adhesion use.
- Lane · entry 9568
لَزُبَ
To become commixed or intermixed, or contracted, with one part entering another.
Describes something becoming internally mingled or compacted.
- Lane · entry 9568
لَزَبَ
Of mud, to cohere and become hard.
The evidence applies this use specifically to mud.
- Lane · entry 9568
لَزَبَ
To denote a time of drought or absence of rain.
A verbal description of drought conditions.
- Lane · entry 9568
لَزَبَ
To sting, as a scorpion.
An equivalent lexical use in the construction لَزَبَتْهُ العَقْرَبُ.
- Lane · entry 9568
تَلَازَبَ التَّمْرُ
Of dates, to stick together.
Used in the cited construction with dates as the subject.
- Lane · entry 9569
لَزْبٌ
Narrow, strait, or difficult.
Can describe a strait or a difficult life.
- Lane · entry 9570
لِزْبٌ
A narrow road or way.
The evidence specifically attests the meaning for a road or path.
- Lane · entry 9571
لَزَبٌ
An emphatic, imitative sequel after عَزَبٌ, denoting a man without a wife.
This is a pleonastic corroborative expression following عَزَبٌ.
- Lane · entry 9572
لَزِبٌ
Little in quantity or number.
The evidence illustrates the adjective with scant water but does not limit it to water.
- Lane · entry 9573
لَزْبَةٌ
Adversity, difficulty, distress, or drought; a severe year.
May denote either general distress or a severe drought year.
- Lane · entry 9574
لَازِبٌ
Fixed, settled, firm, or constant; in ضَرْبَةُ لَازِبٍ, a constant, severe, or necessary infliction.
The idiomatic construction describes something that remains fixed or is inescapable and necessary.
- Lane · entry 9575
مِلْزَابٌ
Very avaricious, tenacious, or niggardly.
A descriptive adjective for pronounced grasping or withholding behavior.
- Lane · entry 9576