Quranic root
مزق
m · z · q
The root centers on rupture: tearing through or breaking the integrity of something.
The rupture image develops into tearing something into pieces, dispersing a group, producing torn fragments, and figuratively impairing or disorganizing an abstract matter. Related lexical extensions include a very swift she-camel whose skin seems about to split and a bird's casting of its droppings.
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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.
مَزَّقَ
mazzaqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- 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.
To tear or rend extensively, leaving something in pieces or disintegrated.
In the Quranic passive occurrence, describes being torn apart or disintegrated; this is distinct from the active dispersal of a group.
- Lane · entry 5686
Selected Quran examples
Quran 34:7word 10
“you have disintegrated”
To scatter or disperse.
The Quranic active occurrence describes causing them to become dispersed.
- Lane · entry 5686
Selected Quran examples
Quran 34:19word 10
“and We dispersed them”
مُمَزَّق
mumazzaq
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
Torn apart, rent into pieces, or disintegrated.
Passive-participial description of a thing reduced to pieces or disintegrated.
- Lane · entry 5686
Selected Quran examples
Quran 34:7word 12
“disintegration”
Dispersed or scattered.
Passive-participial description of a dispersed condition.
- Lane · entry 5686
Selected Quran examples
Quran 34:19word 12
“dispersion”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 34:7مُزِّقْتُمْyou have disintegrated
- 34:7مُمَزَّقٍdisintegration
- 34:19وَمَزَّقْنَـٰهُمْand We dispersed them
- 34:19مُمَزَّقٍ ۚdispersion
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 8 Classical meanings
مَزَقَ
To tear through or rupture something.
A basic Form I lexical use recorded in Classical Arabic; no Quranic Form I group is supplied here.
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مَزَّقَ
To mangle or rent severely; figuratively, to shatter, disorganize, dissipate, mar, or impair something.
Extended or intensified applications include a person's honour or reputation, intellect, judgment, or affairs.
- Lane · entry 5686
تَمَزَّقَ
To become shattered, disorganized, dissipated, marred, or impaired.
An intransitive or reflexive Form V construction, applied to such things as intellect, judgment, circumstances, and honour or reputation.
- Lane · entry 5687
تَمَزَّقَ
To become scattered or dispersed.
An intransitive or reflexive Form V construction.
- Lane · entry 5687
مَزْقٌ
The rending, tearing, or slitting of a garment or similar object.
Verbal noun denoting the act of tearing or slitting.
- Lane · entry 5688
مِزْقَةٌ
A piece torn off a garment.
A detached fragment produced by tearing.
- Lane · entry 5689
مِزَاقٌ
A she-camel whose skin almost becomes rent in pieces because of her extreme swiftness.
A specialized descriptive noun applied specifically to this type of she-camel.
- Lane · entry 5690
مَزَقَ الطَّائِرُ بِذَرْقِهِ
Of a bird, to cast or throw its droppings.
A specialized construction with a bird as subject and its droppings as the object.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form II Quranic group contains both active and passive perfect occurrences; their constructional difference is reflected in the senses rather than separate verb headwords.
Lane's printed Quran citation is not converted into a modern verse key; the examples here use only the independently supplied QAC locations.