Quranic root
ركز
r · k · z
The root has two principal orientations: fixing or inserting something into the ground, and a sound, especially a faint one.
The fixing sense extends to planted objects, mineral deposits, buried wealth, support, settled places, stations, and firm establishment. A separate sound-meaning branch yields the Quranic noun رِكْز for a low or faint sound.
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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.
رِكْز
rikz
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A faint or low sound; a sound or voice heard from afar.
In the Quran it occurs in a rhetorical question about whether any sound of a people can be heard.
- Lane · entry 24318
- Mufradāt · row 578
Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:98word 14
“a sound”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 19:98رِكْزًۢاa sound
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 16 Classical meanings
رَكَزَ
To stick or fix a spear, stick, or other object upright in the ground; also to make something fast in the ground.
The fixing may be literal, as with a planted object, or may describe thornbushes made fast by hardened soil.
- Lane · entry 24314
رَكَزَ
To fix minerals in mountains, or cause mineral deposits to exist there.
This is a specialized use describing minerals or metals established within the earth.
- Lane · entry 24314
رَكَزَ
To bury property secretly or conceal it in the ground.
The associated burial is hidden rather than openly deposited.
- Lane · entry 24314
- Mufradāt · row 578
أَرْكَزَ
To find rikāz, or to have a mine yield mineral wealth or buried treasure.
The verb describes discovering or obtaining what is called رِكَاز, including wealth found in a mine.
- Lane · entry 24316
اِرْتَكَزَ
To become stuck or fixed in the ground.
Lane exemplifies the subject as a spear becoming fixed.
- Lane · entry 24317
اِرْتَكَزَ
To become fixed in one's place and remain there.
A figurative extension describes settling in an abode without leaving it.
- Lane · entry 24317
اِرْتَكَزَ
To lean or support oneself on a bow or spear placed against the ground.
The construction takes عَلَى and describes reliance on the grounded weapon for support.
- Lane · entry 24317
رِكْز
An intelligent, forbearing, learned, and generous or munificent man.
This is a Classical Arabic characterization of a person, distinct from the sound noun.
- Lane · entry 24318
رِكْزَة
Firmness or strength of understanding.
The term may be used in judging the firmness of a person's understanding or grasp.
- Lane · entry 24319
رِكَاز
Metal or other mineral deposited or created in the earth, especially mineral wealth extracted from a mine.
Some Classical usage treats this as the primary meaning and may include substantial pieces of gold or silver.
- Lane · entry 24320
رِكَاز
Buried treasure or property concealed in the ground, especially wealth buried before Islam.
Classical authorities differ over whether the term includes mineral deposits or is restricted to human-buried pre-Islamic wealth.
- Lane · entry 24320
- Mufradāt · row 578
رَاكِز
Firm or fixed; firmly established.
The figurative use may describe might, honor, or glory as firmly established.
- Lane · entry 24324
مَرْكَز
A place where a spear or other object is fixed upright; a place of firmness or fixedness.
The noun denotes the location associated with an act or state of fixing.
- Lane · entry 24325
مَرْكَز
A person's place of alighting or abiding; an assigned station or position of an army or body of troops.
The meaning extends from a place of remaining to an established military station.
- Lane · entry 24325
مَرْكَز
The center of a circle.
- Lane · entry 24325
مَرْكُوز
Firmly fixed or established in minds or understandings.
Used in the expression مَرْكُوزٌ فِي العُقُولِ for something deeply fixed in people's understanding.
- Lane · entry 24326
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic noun رِكْز is securely attested as a low or faint sound. A reported beauty gloss is uncertain and appears to result from a disputed textual reading.
Classical usage varies over whether رِكَاز denotes mineral deposits, buried treasure, or both.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:rkz:24318:g1:sub2 reports a beauty meaning assigned by Golius, apparently based on reading الحُسْنُ instead of الحِسُّ; the packet does not provide sufficient independent evidence to assign it as a lexical meaning.