Quranic root
نشز
n · sh · z
The root centers on rising, elevation, and standing above a level.
From literal elevation and rising from a place, the usage extends causatively to raising and restoring something, and figuratively to a spouse's hostile or estranged conduct toward the other.
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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.
نَشَزَ
nashaza
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 rise from one's place and stand up; in a sitting assembly, to shift or draw together to make room when instructed.
Quranic usage is an imperative addressed to people seated in an assembly. The verb can also describe rising slightly or standing after sitting.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 58:11word 16
“Rise up”
أَنْشَزَ
ʾanshaza
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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 raise something from its place and restore or reassemble it in position; in Quranic usage, to raise the bones and set them together as part of their revival.
A transitive causative construction. The Quranic object is the bones, which are raised to their places before being clothed with flesh.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:259word 53
“We raise them”
نُشُوز
nushūz
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- 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.
Marital estrangement or defiant conduct by one spouse toward the other, including aversion, resistance, desertion, or failure of considerate companionship.
In 4:34 it concerns a wife's hostile withdrawal or resistance toward her husband; in 4:128 it concerns a husband's injurious treatment, estrangement, or desertion of his wife. The term here denotes marital discord, not physical elevation.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:34word 24
“their ill-conduct”
Quran 4:128word 6
“ill-conduct”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:259نُنشِزُهَاWe raise them
- 4:34نُشُوزَهُنَّtheir ill-conduct
- 4:128نُشُوزًاill-conduct
- 58:11ٱنشُزُوا۟Rise up
- 58:11فَٱنشُزُوا۟then rise up
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 7 Classical meanings
نَشَزَ
To move up or away from one's place toward elevated ground, or to emerge above it; hence to become high, prominent, protuberant, or protruding.
A literal or physical use, including something overtopping or appearing above elevated ground.
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نَشَزَ
To rise with people for contention, altercation, or litigation.
Used in the construction of rising with or alongside people for the purpose of dispute.
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نَشَزَ
To heave or rise involuntarily from fright.
Used of the soul, spirit, or stomach when it heaves under the effect of fear.
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أَنْشَزَ
To cause a bone to increase or become augmented.
An extended Form IV construction describing the effect of suckling on a bone.
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نَشْز
A high or elevated place or piece of ground, including raised, hard ground or a slope rising from a valley.
A noun for elevated terrain or a high place on which one may sit.
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نَاشِز
Rising, elevated, prominent, or protruding.
Used of elevated ground, a bodily part or piece of flesh, a prominent forehead, a swollen or pulsating vein, and, of the heart, a heaving caused by fright.
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نَاشِز
A spouse who is disobedient, hostile, estranged, or deserting toward the other spouse.
Applied to either a wife or a husband; the construction conveys exalting oneself against, showing aversion to, or abandoning the spouse.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form I public headword is normalized to the perfect citation form نَشَزَ rather than the Quranic imperative surface form.
Printed Quran references in the lexical evidence use historical citation conventions; the modern example locations here follow the independently supplied QAC locations.
The Form IV entry records an alternative Quranic reading with ر; this artifact follows the supplied QAC form نُنشِزُها and does not assign the alternative reading to this root.