Quranic root
رمز
r · m · z
The root is oriented toward movement or agitation; in its communicative branch, a controlled movement or subdued sound functions as an indication.
The evidence presents signaling as movement of the lips, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, hand, arm, or head, or as a low voice used to convey meaning without ordinary articulated speech. A separate poetic report connects الراموز with the sea, but this does not establish a Quranic form sense.
- Maqāyīs · row 2139
- Mufradāt · row 587
- Lane · entry 24467
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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.
رَمْز
ramz
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- 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.
A sign or gesture used to convey an indication, especially communication by bodily movement or subdued sound instead of ordinary articulated speech.
In 3:41 it describes communicating without speaking normally. The sign may be made with the lips, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, hand, arm, or head, or by a low voice. The same communicative-sign construction includes reciprocal sign-making in a reported variant reading, but that reading is not counted as a separate canonical QAC form here.
- Lane · entry 24467
- Lane · entry 24473
- Mufradāt · row 587
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:41word 14
“(with) gestures”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:41رَمْزًۭا ۗ(with) gestures
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
تَرَامَزَ
To make signs to one another; to exchange indications by gesture or other sign.
A reciprocal Form VI construction describing mutual sign-making.
- Lane · entry 24469
رَمَّاز
A frequent or habitual maker of signs.
An intensive lexical form for repeated or habitual sign-making.
- Lane · entry 24472
رَمَّازَة
An adulteress, fornicatress, or prostitute.
An idiomatic extension explicitly associated with making suggestive signs with the eye.
- Lane · entry 24472
رَمُوز
An intensive sign-maker, one who makes signs frequently.
This form is also involved in a reported Quranic variant reading interpreted as people making signs mutually; that variant is not the canonical QAC form displayed above.
- Lane · entry 24473
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane's citation “Kur iii. 36” is retained as a historical citation convention and is not converted into an independent modern verse location; the canonical Quran example uses the QAC location 3:41.