Arabic root

ز-ل-ز-ل

Zay-Lam-Zay-Lam

1 word from this root family

About this root

Zay-Lam-Zay-Lam (ز-ل-ز-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: zilzāl (earthquake).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 6 times in 4 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:214. The form زِلْزَال (earthquake) accounts for 2 of them.

Themes: Nature Weather

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
زِلْزَال zilzāl	earthquake	noun, B1	2×	Natural Elements

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

In the Quran

هُنَالِكَ ٱبْتُلِىَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَزُلْزِلُوا۟ زِلْزَالًا شَدِيدًا

There were the believers sorely tried, and shaken with a mighty shock.

Quran 33:11

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).