Arabic root

و-ز-ن

Waw-Zay-Nun

3 words from this root family

About this root

Waw-Zay-Nun (و-ز-ن) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: mīzān (balance / scale), muwāzana (budget / balance), mīzāniyya (budget).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 23 times in 21 verses, across 14 of the 114 suras. The first is in 6:152. The form مِيزَانٌ (balance / scale) accounts for 16 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Academic Formal, Law Economics

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
مِيزَانٌ mīzān	balance / scale	noun, A2	16×	The Hereafter
مُوَازَنَة muwāzana	budget / balance	noun, B2		Logic & Arguments
مِيزَانِيَّة mīzāniyya	budget	noun, B2		Business & Trade

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

In the Quran

وَٱلْوَزْنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْحَقُّ ۚ فَمَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ

The weighing on that day is the true (weighing). As for those whose scale is heavy, they are the successful.

Quran 7:8

وَمَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا يَظْلِمُونَ

And as for those whose scale is light: those are they who lose their souls because they used to wrong Our revelations.

Quran 7:9

وَٱلْأَرْضَ مَدَدْنَـٰهَا وَأَلْقَيْنَا فِيهَا رَوَٰسِىَ وَأَنۢبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مَّوْزُونٍ

And the earth have We spread out, and placed therein firm hills, and caused each seemly thing to grow therein.

Quran 15:19

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

A2noun

مِيزَانٌ

mīzān

balance / scale

Example

وَنَضَعُ الْمَوَازِينَ الْقِسْطَ لِيَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ

wa-naḍaʿu al-mawāzīna al-qisṭa liyawmi al-qiyāmah

And We place the scales of justice for the Day of Resurrection (21:47)

Root: و-ز-ن Quranic

Grammar

Masculine noun (مِفْعَال pattern = instrument noun). Plural: مَوَازِينُ (mawāzīn). Related: وَزْنٌ (weight), وَزَنَ (to weigh). From the root meaning 'to weigh.'

Culture

On the Day of Judgment, deeds will be weighed on the Mīzān. Those whose good deeds outweigh their bad will enter Paradise. This metaphor emphasizes divine justice.

B2noun

مُوَازَنَة

muwāzana