Quranic root
رزق
r · z · q
A root centered on giving or assigning a beneficial provision that reaches a recipient.
The basic idea is an allotted gift, originally associated with a provision assigned for a time, and extended to material sustenance, other benefits, and non-time-bound divine bounty.
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- Quran-attested forms
- 7
- Quran senses
- 123
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
رَزَقَ
razaqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 61 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 bestow, grant, or provide someone with sustenance or another beneficial endowment.
A transitive verb that may take a recipient and the provision or benefit supplied as its object; Quranic active and passive forms include providing people with material or other beneficial gifts and being provided with them.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:172word 8
“We have provided you”
Quran 2:25word 14
“they are provided”
Quran 4:5word 10
“(but) provide (for) them”
رِزْق
rizq
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 55 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.
An ongoing provision, gift, or beneficial endowment that reaches a recipient, whether worldly or eschatological.
May refer to material sustenance, wealth, status, knowledge, or other beneficial bounty; the Quranic use is not restricted to food.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:22word 16
“(as) provision”
Food or nourishment taken into the body.
Used for a concrete edible provision or what sustains a person through eating.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:37word 17
“provision”
Rain understood as provision.
A Quranic figurative use in which rain, especially rain that sustains life, is called provision; this sense should not be generalized to every occurrence of the noun.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 51:22word 3
“(is) your provision”
An allotted share of blessing; by a Quranic interpretation, the acknowledgment or thanksgiving due for a bestowed blessing.
In the expression associated with 56:82, the share or response to blessing is portrayed as being replaced by denial rather than gratitude.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 56:82word 2
“your provision”
رَازِق
rāziq
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 6 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.
A provider: one who gives provision or serves as a means by which provision reaches others.
The Quranic plural can refer to providers generally while affirming that God is the best or ultimate provider; the lexical use includes a causal intermediary as well as a giver.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 15:20word 8
“providers”
Quran 22:58word 18
“(of) the Providers”
Quran 34:39word 20
“(of) the Providers”
الرَّزَّاق
ālrrazzāq
- Part of speech
- Intensive active participle · Divine epithet
- 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.
The intensive divine provider: the One who abundantly and continually provides.
Used as a divine epithet and not as an ordinary human designation.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 51:58word 4
“(is) the All-Provider”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:3رَزَقْنَـٰهُمْWe have provided them
- 2:22رِزْقًۭا(as) provision
- 2:25رُزِقُوا۟they are provided
- 2:25رِّزْقًۭا ۙ(as) provision
- 2:25رُزِقْنَاwe were provided
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 14 Classical meanings
رَزَقَ
To give an army its subsistence-money, pay, or regular allowances.
A conventional military use with the army or soldiers as recipients.
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رُزِقَ
Of a place, to be rained upon.
A passive lexical use in which rainfall is expressed as provision reaching the place.
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رَزَقَ
In the Azd dialect, to thank, show gratitude, or acknowledge another’s beneficence.
A dialectal verb distinct from the ordinary meaning of providing; it underlies one interpretation of the Quranic noun in the thanksgiving construction.
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اِرْتَزَقَ
To take or receive one’s provisions.
Used of soldiers receiving subsistence-money, pay, or allowances, and more generally of people receiving means of subsistence.
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اِسْتَرْزَقَ
To ask or demand provision from someone.
The requested provision may be ordinary subsistence or, for a soldier, pay or an allowance.
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رِزْق
A regular subsistence allowance, especially the pay or allowance assigned to soldiers.
May denote food allowance, subsistence-money, or a periodic military payment.
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رِزْقَة
A single portion or installment of provision or an allowance.
Especially used for one payment or one portion of soldiers’ subsistence-money.
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رَوَازِق
Predatory dogs or birds that catch game.
A plural designation applied to animals that seize prey.
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رَازِقِيّ
Weak or feeble.
An archaic adjectival use applied to a thing without a specified object class.
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رَازِقِيّ
A variety of grapes known as Rāziqī grapes.
A named grape variety associated with al-Ṭāʾif.
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رَازِقِيّ
Wine made from the Rāziqī grapes.
The designation is transferred from the named grape variety to wine produced from it.
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رَازِقِيّ
White flaxen cloth.
Used as a collective designation for the cloth, especially in descriptions of strainers or textile vessels.
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مَرْزُوق
A man possessing good fortune or good worldly fortune.
An adjectival passive-participial use describing worldly prosperity or good fortune.
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المُرْتَزِقَة
People who receive settled periodic allowances of food, pay, or similar subsistence.
The term can apply even when the recipients are not entered in an official register.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane’s printed citation for the thanksgiving interpretation uses historical notation; the modern example 56:82 is used because that location is independently supplied by QAC, not by converting Lane’s bracketed citation mechanically.