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Arabic root

ع-ج-ز

Ayn-Jim-Zay

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About this root

Ayn-Jim-Zay (ع-ج-ز) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ʿajz (deficit / inability).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 26 times in 25 verses, across 21 of the 114 suras. The first is in 5:31.

Themes: Law Economics

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
عَجْز
ʿajz
deficit / inabilitynoun, B2Economic Policy

In the Quran

فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ غُرَابًا يَبْحَثُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُرِيَهُۥ كَيْفَ يُوَٰرِى سَوْءَةَ أَخِيهِ ۚ قَالَ يَـٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ أَعَجَزْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَ هَـٰذَا ٱلْغُرَابِ فَأُوَٰرِىَ سَوْءَةَ أَخِى ۖ فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلنَّـٰدِمِينَ

Then Allah sent a raven scratching up the ground, to show him how to hide his brother's naked corpse. He said: Woe unto me! Am I not able to be as this raven and so hide my brother's naked corpse? And he became repentant.

Quran 5:31
إِنَّ مَا تُوعَدُونَ لَـَٔاتٍ ۖ وَمَآ أَنتُم بِمُعْجِزِينَ

Lo! that which ye are promised will surely come to pass, and ye cannot escape.

Quran 6:134
وَلَا يَحْسَبَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ سَبَقُوٓا۟ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ لَا يُعْجِزُونَ

And let not those who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip (Allah's Purpose). Lo! they cannot escape.

Quran 8:59

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

B2noun
عَجْز
ʿajz

deficit / inability

Example
يُعاني البَلَدُ مِن عَجزٍ في الميزانِيَّة.
yuʿānī l-baladu min ʿajzin fī l-mīzāniyya.
The country suffers from a budget deficit.

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