Rizwan Zubair

Root ز ر ع z-r-ʿ

Quranic citations in this entry: 3 · اردو

ز ر عz-r-ʿ

(ف) زَرَعَ يَزْرَعُ زَرْعًاzaraʿa yazraʿu zarʿan: to sow a crop, to cast seed. ﴿ءَاَنْتُمْ تَزْرَعُوْنَهُۥٓ اَمْ نَحْنُ الزّٰرِعُوْنَ﴾ (Al-Wāqiʿah 56:64) — i.e. casting the seed is your work, making it grow is Ours; hence the warning in the ḥadīth «lā يقولنّyqwlnn aḥadukum zaraʿtu».

زَرْعٌzarʿ pl. زُرُوْعٌzurūʿ: crop, harvest. ﴿كَزَرْعٍ اَخْرَجَ شَطْـَٔهُۥ﴾ (Al-Fatḥ 48:29)

زَارِعٌzāriʿ pl. زَارِعُوْنَ وَزُرَّاعٌzāriʿūna wa-zurrāʿ (active participle, ism fāʿil): sower, cultivator. ﴿يُعْجِبُ الزُّرَّاعَ﴾ (Al-Fatḥ 48:29) Note: the verb form (bāb) is determined from the Quranic form «تَزْرَعُوْنَtazraʿūna». This root occurs 14 times in the Quran.

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