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Arabic root

ح-ز-ن

Ha-Zay-Nun

3 words from this root family

About this root

Ha-Zay-Nun (ح-ز-ن) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: ḥazina (to be sad / to grieve), ḥazīn (sad), ḥuzn (sadness / grief).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 42 times in 42 verses, across 25 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:38. The form حُزْن (sadness / grief) accounts for 2 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Emotions, Adjectives, Abstract Concepts

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
حَزِنَ
ḥazina
to be sad / to grieveverb, A1Action Verbs - Thinking & Feeling
حَزين
ḥazīn
sadadjective, A1Adjectives - Speed, Temperature & Quantity
حُزْن
ḥuzn
sadness / griefnoun, B12×Emotions & Feelings

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

قُلْنَا ٱهْبِطُوا۟ مِنْهَا جَمِيعًا ۖ فَإِمَّا يَأْتِيَنَّكُم مِّنِّى هُدًى فَمَن تَبِعَ هُدَاىَ فَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ

We said: Go down, all of you, from hence; but verily there cometh unto you from Me a guidance; and whoso followeth My guidance, there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.

Quran 2:38
وَلَا عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا مَآ أَتَوْكَ لِتَحْمِلَهُمْ قُلْتَ لَآ أَجِدُ مَآ أَحْمِلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ تَوَلَّوا۟ وَّأَعْيُنُهُمْ تَفِيضُ مِنَ ٱلدَّمْعِ حَزَنًا أَلَّا يَجِدُوا۟ مَا يُنفِقُونَ

Nor unto those whom, when they came to thee (asking) that thou shouldst mount them, thou didst tell: I cannot find whereon to mount you. They turned back with eyes flowing with tears, for sorrow that they could not find the means to spend.

Quran 9:92
وَتَوَلَّىٰ عَنْهُمْ وَقَالَ يَـٰٓأَسَفَىٰ عَلَىٰ يُوسُفَ وَٱبْيَضَّتْ عَيْنَاهُ مِنَ ٱلْحُزْنِ فَهُوَ كَظِيمٌ

And he turned away from them and said: Alas, my grief for Joseph! And his eyes were whitened with the sorrow that he was suppressing.

Quran 12:84

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

A1verb
حَزِنَ
ḥazina

to be sad / to grieve

Example
حزنتُ عندما سمعتُ الخبرَ
ḥazintu ʿindamā samiʿtu al-khabara
I was sad when I heard the news
Grammar

Form I verb. Past: ḥazina, Present: yaḥzanu.

A1adjective
حَزين
ḥazīn

sad

Example
الطِّفلُ حَزين
aṭ-ṭiflu ḥazīn
The child is sad
Grammar

Feminine form: ḥazīna (حَزينة). Opposite of saʿīd (سَعيد).

B1noun
حُزْن
ḥuzn

sadness / grief

Example
شَعَرتُ بِحُزنٍ شَديد.
shaʿartu bi-ḥuznin shadīd.
I felt deep sadness.

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