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Arabic root

ج-ز-ا

Jim-Zay-Alif

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About this root

Jim-Zay-Alif (ج-ز-ا) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: juzayʾ (molecule).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 3 times in 3 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:260.

Themes: Science Medicine

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
جُزَيْء
juzayʾ
moleculenoun, B2Cells & Biology

In the Quran

لَهَا سَبْعَةُ أَبْوَٰبٍ لِّكُلِّ بَابٍ مِّنْهُمْ جُزْءٌ مَّقْسُومٌ

It hath seven gates, and each gate hath an appointed portion.

Quran 15:44
وَجَعَلُوا۟ لَهُۥ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦ جُزْءًا ۚ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ لَكَفُورٌ مُّبِينٌ

And they allot to Him a portion of His bondmen! Lo! man is verily a mere ingrate.

Quran 43:15

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
جُزَيْء
juzayʾ

molecule

Example
يَتَكَوَّنُ الماءُ مِن جُزَيئاتِ هيدروجين وَأُكسِجين.
yatakawwanu l-māʾu min juzayʾāti hīdrūjīn wa-uksijīn.
Water consists of hydrogen and oxygen molecules.

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