Quranic root
خزي
kh · z · y
The root concerns a person's abasement, shame, or disgrace, whether experienced inwardly or imposed by another.
The lexical field distinguishes self-related shame from externally inflicted humiliation: خَزِيَ describes entering a disgraced or shamed state, خِزْيٌ names disgrace or ignominy, and أَخْزَى causatively makes another undergo that state.
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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.
خَزِيَ
khaziya
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To become abased, disgraced, or ashamed.
Intransitive: the subject enters a state of abasement or shame, whether arising from the subject's own condition or imposed by others.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:134word 19
“and disgraced”
أَخْزَى
ʾakhzā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 12 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 abase, disgrace, or put someone to shame.
Transitive causative: it may describe subjecting someone to humiliation or making that person ashamed of a shortcoming; Quranic uses include appeals concerning guests, worldly disgrace, and final judgment.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:78word 20
“disgrace me”
Quran 3:192word 7
“You (have) disgraced him”
Quran 66:8word 23
“will be disgraced”
أَخْزَى
ʾakhzā
- Part of speech
- Adjective · Comparative
- 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.
More disgraceful or more humiliating.
Comparative adjective, describing a greater degree of disgrace or humiliating effect.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 41:16word 16
“(is) more disgracing”
مُخْزٍ
mukhzin
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
One who causes disgrace; causing another to be abased or put to shame.
Active participle of Form IV, used substantivally in the Quranic occurrence for the agent who will disgrace.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:2word 13
“(is) the One Who (will) disgrace”
خِزْيٌ
khizyun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 11 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.
Disgrace, ignominy, or humiliating abasement.
A state or result of humiliation, often presented in Quranic contexts as the punitive or publicly manifest consequence of wrongdoing; distinct from the causative act expressed by أَخْزَى.
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Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:85خِزْىٌۭdisgrace
- 2:114خِزْىٌۭ(is) disgrace
- 3:192أَخْزَيْتَهُۥ ۖYou (have) disgraced him
- 3:194تُخْزِنَاdisgrace us
- 5:33خِزْىٌۭdisgrace
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 13 Classical meanings
خَزِيَ
To fall into trial, affliction, or an evil circumstance that exposes one to disgrace; to become confounded through disgrace.
A broader Classical Arabic branch of the Form I verb, distinct from the Quranic state of disgrace when the emphasis is on the affliction or resulting confusion.
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خَازَانَى
To vie or contend with another in mutual abasement, and to surpass or overcome him in it.
Reciprocal or competitive construction.
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أَخْزَى
To compel someone to admit evidence or proof, thereby abasing or disgracing him.
A specialized causative construction in which acknowledged proof becomes the means of humiliation.
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أَخْزَى
To aid someone in, or make him keep to, a cause of shame, abasement, or disgrace.
Construction involving a مَخْزَاة, a thing or circumstance that causes shame or abasement.
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مَخْزَاةٌ
A thing or circumstance that is a cause of shame, abasement, or disgrace.
A cause or occasion of humiliation, rather than the state of disgrace itself.
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أَخْزَى
In a fixed expression, to utter a formula of apparent abasement as praise or benediction for someone whose action or speech is excellent.
The expression أَخْزَاهُ اللهُ may be used admiringly or to ward off the evil eye, not as an actual imprecation.
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خَزٍ
Base, abased, abject, vile, despicable, or ignominious.
Adjectival description of a person or thing.
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خَزْيَةٌ / خِزْيَةٌ
A habit, practice, action, crime, sin, or act of disobedience of which one is or should be ashamed.
Names shameful conduct, not merely the emotional state produced by it.
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مُخْزِيَةٌ
A bad, evil, or foul habit, quality, practice, or action that causes shame or abasement.
Derived adjectival or nominal form referring to conduct that brings disgrace.
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خَزْيَةٌ
A trial or affliction into which one is made to fall.
A Classical Arabic use distinct from خَزْيَةٌ as a shameful act.
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خَزْيَانُ
Affected by shame, especially intense shame over a bad or foul deed; also abased or despicable.
Adjective with masculine, feminine, and plural forms; the shame may be emotional or associated with abasement.
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مُخْزًى
Rendered base, abject, vile, or despicable by evidence proved against him.
Passive-resultative description in which established evidence is the cause of abasement.
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مُخْزٍ
In an idiom for speech or poetry, excellent or approved to such a degree that its quality elicits praise for its speaker.
An idiomatic Classical use, especially of كلامٌ مُخْزٍ or قصيدةٌ مُخْزِيَةٌ; it is not the ordinary Quranic agentive sense.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form I Quran occurrence نَخْزَىٰ is an imperfect inflected form and is displayed under the normalized citation form خَزِيَ.
أَخْزَىٰ is represented twice because the packet contains a Form IV verb group and a separate nominal comparative group; these homographic forms are kept distinct.
The Quran-focused discussion allows some uses of the Form IV verb to be understood through either self-related shame or externally imposed disgrace; the broad sense 'to put someone to shame' preserves that overlap without forcing an unsupported distinction.
No Maqayis entry was supplied; the root-level orientation and development therefore rely on the matched Quran-focused lexical discussion.