Quranic root
زحزح
z · ḥ · z · ḥ
The root centers on distance and separation.
This notion develops into removing or driving something away, putting it at a distance, being moved aside, or withdrawing to a remote place.
- Maqāyīs · row 2225
- Lane · entry 30928
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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.
زَحْزَحَ
zaḥzaḥa
- 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 be removed or driven away from something, especially to a distance.
The Quranic occurrence is the passive perfect زُحْزِحَ, with عَنْ marking what a person is removed from; it describes being removed far from Hellfire.
- Lane · entry 30928
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:185word 11
“is drawn away”
مُزَحْزِحٌ
muzaḥziḥun
- 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 or something that removes a person or thing from something else or puts it at a distance.
The active participle occurs in a بِـ construction with مِنْ, expressing inability to remove someone from punishment.
- Lane · entry 30928
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:96word 17
“(will) remove him”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 5 Classical meanings
زَحَّهُ
To draw, drag, or pull someone or something away in haste.
This is a transitive use associated with the contracted form زَحَّهُ.
- Lane · entry 30928
تَزَحْزَحَ
To move away, become removed, or move aside; transitively, to remove something or someone away.
The form may be used transitively or intransitively; moving aside to make room is an attested construction.
- Lane · entry 30930
زَحْزَحٌ
Distance; a position at a remove from someone or something.
Used in the expression بِزَحْزَحٍ مِنْهُ, meaning to be at a distance from him or it.
- Lane · entry 30931
زَحْزَاحٌ
Distant or remote.
An adjectival description of remoteness.
- Lane · entry 30932
مُتَزَحْزَحٌ
A place to which one withdraws or moves away; a remote place.
Used for a place of retreat or removal, including one far away.
- Lane · entry 30933
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The verb is displayed under the normalized citation form زَحْزَحَ, while the supplied QAC occurrence is passive زُحْزِحَ; the supplied QAC Form I label is retained.
Lane's printed Quran citation uses historical notation and is not converted into a modern verse location; the examples here use only the independently supplied QAC locations.