Arabic root

ن-ز-ل

Nun-Zay-Lam

3 words from this root family

About this root

Nun-Zay-Lam (ن-ز-ل) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: anzala (he sent down / he revealed), nazala (to get off / to descend), manzil (house / home).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 293 times in 257 verses, across 60 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:4. The form أَنْزَلَ (he sent down / he revealed) accounts for 183 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Travel, Verbs, Places

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
أَنْزَلَ anzala	he sent down / he revealed	verb, A2	183×	Faith and Belief
نَزَلَ nazala	to get off / to descend	verb, A2	6×	At the Hotel
مَنْزِل manzil	house / home	noun, A2		Road & Driving

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

In the Quran

وَٱلَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِمَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ وَمَآ أُنزِلَ مِن قَبْلِكَ وَبِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ هُمْ يُوقِنُونَ

And who believe in that which is revealed unto thee (Muhammad) and that which was revealed before thee, and are certain of the Hereafter.

Quran 2:4

وَإِن كُنتُمْ فِى رَيْبٍ مِّمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَىٰ عَبْدِنَا فَأْتُوا۟ بِسُورَةٍ مِّن مِّثْلِهِۦ وَٱدْعُوا۟ شُهَدَآءَكُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰدِقِينَ

And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.

Quran 2:23

يَعْلَمُ مَا يَلِجُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا وَمَا يَنزِلُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا يَعْرُجُ فِيهَا ۚ وَهُوَ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ٱلْغَفُورُ

He knoweth that which goeth into the earth and that which cometh forth from it, and that descendeth from the heaven and that which ascendeth into it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving.

Quran 34:2

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

A2verb

أَنْزَلَ

anzala

he sent down / he revealed

Example

إِنَّا أَنْزَلْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ

innā anzalnāhu fī laylati al-qadr

Indeed, We sent it down during the Night of Decree (97:1)

Root: ن-ز-ل Quranic

Grammar

Form IV verb (أَفْعَلَ). Past: أَنْزَلَ, Present: يُنْزِلُ. Also Form II: نَزَّلَ (sent down gradually). Form I: نَزَلَ (descended). Related: تَنْزِيلٌ (revelation).

Culture

Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Decree) is the night the Quran began to be revealed. Muslims seek it in the last ten nights of Ramadan.

A2verb

نَزَلَ

nazala