ز-و-ج
Zay-Waw-Jim
4 words from this root family
About this root
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
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
زَوْج zawj | husband | noun, A1 | 76× | Immediate Family |
زَوْجَة zawja | wife | noun, A1 | Immediate Family | |
مُتَزَوِّج mutazawwij | married (male) | adjective, A1 | Family & Relationships - Final Words | |
زَوْجِيّ zawjiyy | even (number) | adjective, A2 | Practical 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 ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَAnd 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.
وَٱلَّذِينَ يُتَوَفَّوْنَ مِنكُمْ وَيَذَرُونَ أَزْوَٰجًا يَتَرَبَّصْنَ بِأَنفُسِهِنَّ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرًا ۖ فَإِذَا بَلَغْنَ أَجَلَهُنَّ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا فَعَلْنَ فِىٓ أَنفُسِهِنَّ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌSuch 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.
أَوْ يُزَوِّجُهُمْ ذُكْرَانًا وَإِنَـٰثًا ۖ وَيَجْعَلُ مَن يَشَآءُ عَقِيمًا ۚ إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٌ قَدِيرٌOr He mingleth them, males and females, and He maketh barren whom He will. Lo! He is Knower, Powerful.
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
wife
married (male)
Active participle from تَزَوَّجَ (to marry). Feminine: مُتَزَوِّجَة (mutazawwija).
even (number)
زَوْجِيّ comes from زَوْج (pair/couple). Even numbers are called so because they can be divided into pairs.