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Arabic root

ز-و-ج

Zay-Waw-Jim

4 words from this root family

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Zay-Waw-Jim (ز-و-ج) has 4 words in the Fahm dictionary: zawj (husband), zawja (wife), mutazawwij (married (male)), zawjiyy (even (number)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 81 times in 72 verses, across 43 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:25. The form زَوْج (husband) accounts for 76 of them.

Themes: Family, Relationships, Adjectives, Numbers, Numbers Practical

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
زَوْج
zawj
husbandnoun, A176×Immediate Family
زَوْجَة
zawja
wifenoun, A1Immediate Family
مُتَزَوِّج
mutazawwij
married (male)adjective, A1Family & Relationships - Final Words
زَوْجِيّ
zawjiyy
even (number)adjective, A2Practical Number Words

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

In the Quran

وَقُلْنَا يَـٰٓـَٔادَمُ ٱسْكُنْ أَنتَ وَزَوْجُكَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ وَكُلَا مِنْهَا رَغَدًا حَيْثُ شِئْتُمَا وَلَا تَقْرَبَا هَـٰذِهِ ٱلشَّجَرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ

And We said: O Adam! Dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden, and eat ye freely (of the fruits) thereof where ye will; but come not nigh this tree lest ye become wrong-doers.

Quran 2:35
وَٱلَّذِينَ يُتَوَفَّوْنَ مِنكُمْ وَيَذَرُونَ أَزْوَٰجًا يَتَرَبَّصْنَ بِأَنفُسِهِنَّ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرًا ۖ فَإِذَا بَلَغْنَ أَجَلَهُنَّ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا فَعَلْنَ فِىٓ أَنفُسِهِنَّ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ

Such of you as die and leave behind them wives, they (the wives) shall wait, keeping themselves apart, four months and ten days. And when they reach the term (prescribed for them) then there is no sin for you in aught that they may do with themselves in decency. Allah is informed of what ye do.

Quran 2:234
أَوْ يُزَوِّجُهُمْ ذُكْرَانًا وَإِنَـٰثًا ۖ وَيَجْعَلُ مَن يَشَآءُ عَقِيمًا ۚ إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٌ قَدِيرٌ

Or He mingleth them, males and females, and He maketh barren whom He will. Lo! He is Knower, Powerful.

Quran 42:50

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

A1noun
زَوْج
zawj

husband

Example
زَوْجي يَعمَلُ في البَنك
zawjī yaʿmalu fī al-bank
My husband works at the bank
A1adjective
مُتَزَوِّج
mutazawwij

married (male)

Example
هَل أَنتَ مُتَزَوِّج؟
hal anta mutazawwij?
Are you married?
Grammar

Active participle from تَزَوَّجَ (to marry). Feminine: مُتَزَوِّجَة (mutazawwija).

A2adjective
زَوْجِيّ
zawjiyy

even (number)

Example
الرَّقْمُ أَرْبَعَةٌ عَدَدٌ زَوْجِيٌّ
ar-raqmu arbaʿatun ʿadadun zawjiyyun
The number four is an even number
Grammar

زَوْجِيّ comes from زَوْج (pair/couple). Even numbers are called so because they can be divided into pairs.

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