Arabic root

ز-ي-ت

Zay-Ya-Ta

2 words from this root family

About this root

Zay-Ya-Ta (ز-ي-ت) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: zayt (oil), zaytūn (olives).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 7 times in 6 verses, across 5 of the 114 suras. The first is in 6:99. The form زَيْتُون (olives) accounts for 5 of them.

Themes: Food, Basics

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
زَيْت zayt	oil	noun, A1	1×	Cooking & Kitchen
زَيْتُون zaytūn	olives	noun, A1	5×	Cooking & Kitchen

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

In the Quran

يُنۢبِتُ لَكُم بِهِ ٱلزَّرْعَ وَٱلزَّيْتُونَ وَٱلنَّخِيلَ وَٱلْأَعْنَـٰبَ وَمِن كُلِّ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ ۗ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَةً لِّقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

Therewith He causeth crops to grow for you, and the olive and the date-palm and grapes and all kinds of fruit. Lo! herein is indeed a portent for people who reflect.

Quran 16:11

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).