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Quranic root

نزف

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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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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.

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.

  1. 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

  2. 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.

  • 37:47يُنزَفُونَwill be intoxicated
  • 56:19يُنزِفُونَthey will get intoxicated
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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 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.