Quranic root
زجج
z · j · j
The root is oriented toward fineness, narrowness, or a slender pointed part, exemplified by the pointed fitting of a spear and the narrowness of eyebrows.
The lexical branches extend from a slender or pointed implement to piercing and thrusting, descriptive terms for narrow or arched eyebrows, and related figurative applications. The glass vocabulary is separately attested as a lexical branch.
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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.
زُجَاجَةٌ
zujājahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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 transparent glass vessel or container; also the glass material from which such vessels are made.
In the Quranic lamp image, the word denotes the glass vessel or enclosure associated with the lamp.
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- Lane · entry 30886
Selected Quran examples
Quran 24:35word 12
“a glass”
Quran 24:35word 13
“the glass”
The glass enclosure or globe of a lamp, understood metonymically in the Quranic lamp image as the lamp itself.
A Quran-specific contextual interpretation of the glass in 24:35; it is not a general synonym for every glass vessel.
- Lane · entry 30886
Selected Quran examples
Quran 24:35word 13
“the glass”
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 37 Classical meanings
زَجَّ
To pierce or thrust with the pointed iron fitting of a spear; to cast at someone with it.
The object used for piercing or throwing is the زُجّ, the pointed iron fitting of the spear.
- Lane · entry 30879
زَجَّ
To cast or throw a thing away from oneself or from one's hand.
A figurative extension of casting or thrusting.
- Lane · entry 30879
زَجَّ
Of an ostrich, to run while throwing out its legs.
Applied specifically to the ostrich's manner of running.
- Lane · entry 30879
يَزُجُّ
Of a valley, to put forth herbage as though casting it from itself.
A figurative description of vegetation emerging from a valley.
- Lane · entry 30879
زَجَّ
Of an eyebrow, to be or become narrow and long, or narrow and arched.
An intransitive descriptive use concerning the form of the eyebrow.
- Lane · entry 30879
زَجَّجَ
To shape the eyebrows by making them narrow, long, or arched; to trim redundant hair or lengthen their appearance with antimony.
A cosmetic or grooming application to the eyebrows; the alternatives describe related methods of producing the stated appearance.
- Lane · entry 30880
زَجَّجَ
To make a place even and adjusted; alternatively, to provide it with a زُجّ to hold and protect what is inside.
Reported for the prepared hole or place in a piece of wood; the two explanations are variant interpretations of the construction.
- Lane · entry 30880
أَزَجَّ
To put or make a زُجّ on a spear.
The زُجّ is the pointed iron fitting attached to the spear.
- Lane · entry 30881
أَزَجَّ
To remove the زُجّ from a spear.
A reported but disputed interpretation of the Form IV expression; another authority rejects this meaning.
- Lane · entry 30881
اِزْدَجَّ
Of an eyebrow, to reach the outer extremity of the eye.
Applied to the extension of the eyebrow toward the eye's outer edge.
- Lane · entry 30882
اِزْدَجَّ
Of herbage, for the intervening spaces to become closed up.
Applied to vegetation whose growth fills the spaces between it.
- Lane · entry 30882
زُجٌّ
The pointed iron foot, heel, or shoe fixed to the lower end of a spear, used to stick the spear into the ground; by synecdoche, its plural can denote spears generally.
The iron fitting at the upper end of a spear, used for piercing, is distinguished as a سِنَانٌ.
- Lane · entry 30883
زُجٌّ
The pointed extremity or joint of the elbow; by extension, the elbow.
A figurative anatomical use based on the pointed extremity of the spear fitting.
- Lane · entry 30883
زِجَاجٌ
The tushes or canine teeth of a stallion camel.
A figurative plural use.
- Lane · entry 30883
زِجَاجٌ
An iron pivot around which a millstone turns.
A rare reported meaning marked as an assumed figurative application.
- Lane · entry 30883
زِجٌّ
An arrowhead.
The term is also used for the pointed metal head of an arrow, with separately recorded plural forms.
- Lane · entry 30883
زَجَجٌ
Narrowness and length, or narrowness, fullness, and arching, of the eyebrows.
The variant descriptions concern the characteristic shape or appearance of the eyebrows.
- Lane · entry 30884
زَجَجٌ
Of an ostrich, length of the shanks and breadth of stride.
Applied to the ostrich's leg proportions and manner of stepping.
- Lane · entry 30884
زَجَجٌ
Of camels, width or wideness in the space between the hind legs.
Applied to the bodily spacing of camels.
- Lane · entry 30884
زَجَجٌ
Wideness of a solid hoof.
This is described as a fault in the hoof.
- Lane · entry 30884
زُجُجٌ
Darts or javelins furnished with iron heads.
A plural noun for iron-headed missiles.
- Lane · entry 30885
زُجُجٌ
Wild asses fighting one another.
A lexicographic reading reported in variant copies; the fighting-wild-asses interpretation is the preferred reading in the cited discussion.
- Lane · entry 30885
زَجَاجٌ
The berries of the clove tree.
This meaning is associated with the fatḥah-vowelled form زَجَاجٌ.
- Lane · entry 30886
زِجَاجَةٌ
The art or occupation of making glass or glass vessels.
A specialized occupational meaning of a variant of the glass-related noun.
- Lane · entry 30887
زُجَاجِيٌّ
A seller of glass or glass vessels.
An occupational noun derived from the glass term.
- Lane · entry 30888
زَجَّاجٌ
A maker or manufacturer of glass or glass vessels.
An occupational noun for a glassmaker.
- Lane · entry 30889
الزَّجَّاجَةُ
The anus.
A rare figurative explanation based on the emission of wind and excrement.
- Lane · entry 30890
أَزَجُّ
Having narrow, long, full, or arched eyebrows; in a Yemeni dialect, the eyebrow itself.
Applied to a person or eyebrow; the naturally occurring eyebrow form is distinguished in the lexical discussion from an artificially produced form.
- Lane · entry 30891
أَزَجُّ
Long-legged or long-stepping.
Applied especially to an ostrich, and also to a man.
- Lane · entry 30891
أَزَجُّ
Of a male ostrich, having white feathers above the eyes.
A separately reported descriptive application to the ostrich.
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أَزَجُّ
Of a solid hoof, wide.
A descriptive application to the hoof, recorded as a figurative extension.
- Lane · entry 30891
مُزَجٌّ
A spear having a زُجّ affixed to it.
The derived noun denotes the spear by reference to its fitted lower iron.
- Lane · entry 30892
مِزَجٌّ
A short spear like a مِزْرَاق, fitted with a زُجّ at its lower end.
A weapon noun describing the spear and its lower fitting.
- Lane · entry 30893
مِزَجٌّ
Something that transfixes or passes through quickly.
A secondary application of the short-spear noun.
- Lane · entry 30893
مِزَجَّةٌ
An instrument used to shape the eyebrow into the form described as أَزَجُّ.
A cosmetic implement for producing a narrow, long, or arched eyebrow.
- Lane · entry 30894
مَزْجُوجٌ
Pierced or thrust with the زُجّ of a spear; cast at with it.
A passive participial description of someone or something struck or thrown at with the spear fitting.
- Lane · entry 30896
مَزْجُوجٌ
A large bucket whose two opposite lips or edges are brought together and sewn.
A separate noun for a particular construction of bucket.
- Lane · entry 30896
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic interpretation of the glass as a lamp is a contextual or metonymic reading alongside the literal glass-vessel sense.
The reported meaning of أَزَجَّ as removing a spear's زُجّ is explicitly disputed in the lexical evidence.