Quranic root
زقم
z · q · m
A root centered on eating, especially the forceful or rapid taking of food by the mouth and its swallowing.
The lexical family extends from gobbling and swallowing to causative and intensive ingestion, including specialized names for foods and trees associated with the root.
- Maqāyīs · row 2268
- Lane · entry 31353
- Lane · entry 31355
- Lane · entry 31356
- Lane · entry 31357
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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.
زَقُّوم
zaqqūm
- Part of speech
- Proper noun · Quranic name
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
Zaqqum: the tree in Hell and the foul food associated with it, assigned to the sinners.
A Quranic designation used in references to the tree of Zaqqum and the food of the sinner; the tree and its fruit are presented as a Hell-associated food rather than as the ordinary earthly foods or trees recorded in broader Classical usage.
- Lane · entry 31360
- Mufradāt · row 624
Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 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 11 Classical meanings
زَقَمَ (زَقْمٌ)
To gobble or swallow food, especially quickly and hastily; by extension, to swallow something unpleasant.
The verbal noun is زَقْمٌ. The usage is also applied to eating the food called zaqqum.
- Lane · entry 31353
- Mufradāt · row 624
زَقَّمَ
To give someone a thing to eat.
A reported Form II usage; the lexical statement does not specify any authority or social relation between giver and recipient.
- Lane · entry 31354
أَزْقَمَ
To make someone swallow a thing.
Form IV, used transitively with a person as the recipient of the swallowed thing.
- Lane · entry 31355
تَزَقَّمَ (تَزَقُّمٌ)
To swallow a morsel or other food, leisurely or simply; also, to swallow something unpleasant.
The verbal noun is تَزَقُّمٌ. The leisurely nuance is attested in one formulation, while simple swallowing is also reported.
- Lane · entry 31356
- Mufradāt · row 624
تَزَقَّمَ (تَزَقُّمٌ)
To drink milk immoderately or abundantly.
A specialized usage of the Form V verb, with milk as the stated object.
- Lane · entry 31356
اِزْدَقَمَ
To swallow a thing.
Form VIII, used transitively.
- Lane · entry 31357
زَقْمَةٌ
Plague or pestilence.
Used in the expression of being smitten with the plague.
- Lane · entry 31359
زَقُّوم
A food made of dates and fresh butter; a particular food of the Arabs.
A regional or dialectal food designation, distinct from the Quranic Hell-associated referent.
- Lane · entry 31360
زَقُّوم
Any deadly food.
A broader Classical use of the noun for a lethal or harmful food.
- Lane · entry 31360
زَقُّوم
A particular small-leaved, foul-smelling, bitter tree or desert plant of Tihamah.
A botanical designation reported for an earthly plant; the descriptions include a thornless plant with a weak flower.
- Lane · entry 31360
زَقُّوم
A particular tree in Jericho bearing date-like fruit.
Its stone was traditionally described as yielding an oil used medicinally.
- Lane · entry 31360
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
QAC tags the three Quranic occurrences as a proper noun, while Classical sources also use زَقُّوم as a common noun for foods and several earthly trees; these meanings are kept separate.
The Quranic form is attested only as زَقُّوم in the supplied QAC data; the broader Classical entries include related verbal, food, botanical, and medical usages.