Quranic root
نزف
n · z · f
The root centers on depletion: a substance, liquid, resource, or capacity is used up and brought to an end.
The lexical field extends from draining a well or expelling blood and tears to drink running out, the mind being emptied by intoxication, and figuratively a disputant's proof being exhausted.
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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.
أَنْزَفَ
ʾanzafa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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 become intoxicated; to have one's reason removed by drink.
In the Quranic construction with عَنْهَا, this meaning is negated: the drink does not intoxicate or deprive its drinkers of reason. The sense is tied to one of the variant vocalizations represented in the supplied Form IV grouping.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 37:47word 7
“will be intoxicated”
Quran 56:19word 5
“they will get intoxicated”
For drink to be exhausted or depleted.
In the Quranic construction, this meaning is likewise negated: the drink does not run out. It is an explicitly reported variant-reading interpretation of the grouped Form IV expression, not an additional occurrence.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 56:19word 5
“they will get intoxicated”
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 4 Classical meanings
نَزَفَ
To drain or exhaust a liquid completely, especially by drawing water from a well little by little; also to have blood or tears entirely flow out.
The well usage concerns gradual removal of its water; the blood and tears usages describe their being completely drawn out.
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نُزْفَة
A scoop or single drawing of water.
A nominal usage for the amount taken in one scoop; its plural is نُزَف.
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أَنْزَفَ
To exhaust or deplete a thing completely.
A transitive Form IV usage described as stronger or more intensive than نَزَفَ.
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نَزَفَ
For a disputant's argument or proof to be exhausted, leaving him unable to continue his case.
A figurative construction used of a person whose حجّة has come to an end in disputation.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The single QAC Form IV group combines the vocalized forms يُنزَفُ and يُنزِفُ. The supplied Quran-focused evidence records variant-reading interpretations involving both intoxication and drink depletion, while the contextual English glosses render both occurrences as intoxication.