Quranic root
زيد
z · y · d
A root oriented toward surplus: something becomes greater than its prior amount or state, or an addition is made to it.
The lexical range develops from increase and excess to addition, augmentation, self-increase, gradual escalation, outbidding, and seeking more. These developments are distributed across distinct derived forms and nouns.
- Maqāyīs · row 2329
- Lane · entry 31968
- Lane · entry 31973
- 4
- Quran-attested forms
- 6
- Quran senses
- 61
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
زَادَ
zāda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 49 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 increase, grow, or become greater in amount or degree.
Used intransitively for an amount, state, quality, or condition that increases; grammatical voice and tense vary across the Quranic occurrences.
- Lane · entry 31968
Selected Quran examples
Quran 35:39word 12
“increase”
To increase, augment, or add to something or someone; to give more.
Used transitively with the thing increased and, in some constructions, with a person who receives an increase or addition.
- Lane · entry 31968
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:247word 31
“and increased him”
Quran 14:7word 6
“surely I will increase you”
To exceed or be more than a reference amount or standard.
Especially associated with comparative constructions using عَلَى and with expressions of numerical or relative excess.
- Lane · entry 31968
Selected Quran examples
Quran 37:147word 6
“more”
اِزْدَادَ
āizdāda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- Quran occurrences
- 8 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 increase, grow, or become greater; to take on an increase.
The Form VIII subject undergoes or takes the increase itself, rather than simply causing another object to increase.
- Lane · entry 31973
Selected Quran examples
Quran 13:8word 11
“they exceed”
Quran 48:4word 8
“that they may increase”
مَزِيدٌ
mazīdun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
More, additional; an amount added beyond what is already present.
A passive-participle form used substantivally in Quranic expressions asking whether more is available or stating that more is present.
- Lane · entry 31982
Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:30word 9
“more”
Quran 50:35word 6
“(is) more”
زِيَادَةٌ
ziyādahun
- Part of speech
- Verbal 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.
An increase, addition, or amount beyond the original or existing measure.
A verbal noun used for an added amount or further increment; the Quranic contexts include both general addition and a further gift or benefit.
- Lane · entry 31976
Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:37word 3
“(is) an increase”
Quran 10:26word 4
“and more”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:10فَزَادَهُمُso has increased them
- 2:58وَسَنَزِيدُAnd We will increase
- 2:247وَزَادَهُۥand increased him
- 3:90ٱزْدَادُوا۟they increased
- 3:173فَزَادَهُمْBut it increased them
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 24 Classical meanings
زَادَ
To give an addition in a transaction, especially an addition associated with usury.
A conventional transactional use in which giving or taking an addition is characterized as usury.
- Lane · entry 31968
زَادَ
To add to or exaggerate a narration, discourse, or report.
Often applied to a liar who introduces additions into speech.
- Lane · entry 31968
زَادَ
To be more sufficient or beneficial than another, and hence to cause no harm.
An idiomatic comparative construction, as in expressions saying that no person or animal is more sufficient than another.
- Lane · entry 31968
زَيَّدَ
To increase or augment greatly.
The Form II usage is explicitly exemplified with property that has increased or been augmented much.
- Lane · entry 31969
زَايَدَ
To outbid another buyer.
Used of one of two parties buying together when one offers more than the other.
- Lane · entry 31970
تَزَيَّدَ
To become excessive or dear, especially of a price.
A Form V usage applied to a price that has become too high or costly.
- Lane · entry 31971
تَزَيَّدَ
To affect excess in speech or action; to add, exaggerate, or embellish a narration with falsehoods.
A conventional Form V usage for affected excess or lying in discourse.
- Lane · entry 31971
تَزَيَّدَ
To force oneself beyond the normal limit in movement or pace.
Used of camels, horses, or similar movement when the animal goes beyond its usual pace or ability.
- Lane · entry 31971
تَزَايَدَ
To increase, augment, or grow gradually.
The Form VI usage denotes progressive increase, as opposed to decrease.
- Lane · entry 31972
تَزَايَدَ
To raise a price successively against one another; to outbid one another.
Used of people in a market who successively offer more for a commodity until the price reaches its limit.
- Lane · entry 31972
اِسْتَزَادَ
To seek, desire, demand, obtain, or gain an increase or more.
The Form X subject seeks an additional amount, whether generally or from another person.
- Lane · entry 31973
اِسْتَزَادَ
To seek to add, exaggerate, or embellish a narration or discourse.
A conventional speech-related usage involving additions or false embellishment.
- Lane · entry 31973
اِسْتَزَادَ
To regard someone as having fallen short, complain or reprove them, and require them to do more.
A figurative or administrative usage, including a letter of complaint requiring further performance.
- Lane · entry 31973
زَيْدٌ
More than or in excess of a stated number or amount.
A conventional nominal use in expressions such as saying that a group is more than a hundred.
- Lane · entry 31974
زِيَادَةٌ
Grammatical augmentation, especially the letters added to the root letters of an Arabic word.
A technical grammatical use; the augmentative letters are conventionally collected in mnemonic expressions.
- Lane · entry 31976
زِيَادَةُ الْكَبِدِ
An appendage or small attached piece of the liver, described as a redundant part of it.
An anatomical term with several traditional descriptions of the appendage's position and attachment.
- Lane · entry 31976
زَائِدٌ
Increasing or augmenting; exceeding, additional, redundant, superfluous, or remaining over and above.
An active participle that also functions adjectivally for something extra or in excess.
- Lane · entry 31977
زَوَائِدُ
Excrescences or pendent hairs at the hind part of an animal's lower leg or foot.
A specialized zoological-anatomical plural usage.
- Lane · entry 31978
ذُو الزَّوَائِدِ
The lion, characterized by its claws, canine teeth, roar, and impetuosity.
An idiomatic epithet in which the plural denotes the lion's formidable additional features and powers.
- Lane · entry 31978
زَائِدَةُ السَّاقِ
The shinbone.
A specialized anatomical term.
- Lane · entry 31978
زَوَائِدِيٌّ
Having something redundant or an unusual excess.
An attributive or epithet-like usage, reported in connection with a person said to have three testicles.
- Lane · entry 31979
تَزِيدِيَّةٌ
A type of garment with red stripes.
The term is variously attributed to a tribal name, a Yemeni place where such cloth was woven, or another reported derivation; the lexical sense is the striped garment.
- Lane · entry 31980
مَزِيدٌ
Increased or augmented.
The ordinary passive-participle value of the form, distinct from its Quranic substantival use meaning more or additional.
- Lane · entry 31982
مَزَادَةٌ
A leathern water-bag, especially one of the bags carried by a camel or other beast.
A specialized container term with traditional distinctions concerning its number of skins, shape, loops, and relation to a larger water carrier.
- Lane · entry 31983
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied Mufradat row is explicitly shared between the roots زود and زيد; its composite discussion was not treated as unique evidence for this root. The form-level Quranic senses are supported directly by Lane evidence.
The etymology of تَزِيدِيَّةٌ is disputed in the lexical evidence, although its garment sense is clear.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The shared Mufradat entry contains Quran-focused explanations and exegetical material that cannot be assigned uniquely to زيد without further segmentation; only meanings independently supported by the direct Lane evidence were incorporated.