Qur'an Gateway | Examine Root: زين (zyn)

Examining Root: زين (zyn)

Definition:
To adorn, deck. Adorn, grace, honor [said of an action, quality, or saying]. Embellished, dressed, or trimmed it [relating to language]. Adorned [ex. The earth, or land, became adorned with or by it's herbage], ornamented, decorated, decked, bedecked, garnished, embellished, beautified, or graced him/it. Of language it is said: "It was embellished, dressed up, or trimmed". Of action it is said: "It was embellished, dressed up"; i.e. commended to a person by another man. A grace, a beauty, a comely quality, a physical/intellectual adornment, an honour or a credit, and anything that is the pride or glory of a person or a thing. A thing that does not disgrace or render unseemly a wise man in any of his states or conditions, either in the present world or in that which is to come. It [states] are of three kinds: Mental: Such as knowledge/science and good tenants. Bodily: Strength, tallness of stature, beauty of aspect. Extrinsic: Wealth, rank or station, dignity.

Total Qur’anic Occurrences: 46

Lemmata Based on This Root: 3

Breakdown of Appearances

Verb: 27

Form
I:	0
II:	26
III:	0
IV:	0
V:	1
VI:	0
VII:	0
VIII:	0
VIX:	0
IX:	0
XI:	0
XII:	0

Gender
Masculine:	18
Feminine:	1
Unassigned:	8

Person
1st:	8
2nd:	0
3rd:	19

Number
Singular:	19
Dual:	0
Plural:	8

Noun: 19

Case
Nominative:	3
Accusative:	10
Genitive:	6

Gender
Masculine:	0
Feminine:	19

Number
Singular:	18
Dual:	0
Plural:	1

Formula
Appears in 76 Root-Based Formulae and lies behind 37 Lemma-Based Formulae
Root Formulae	Root-Plus-Particle-Pronoun Formulae	Lemma Formulae
Length 3: 13 Length 4: 6 Length 5: 4	Length 3: 27 Length 4: 19 Length 5: 7	Length 3: 23 Length 4: 10 Length 5: 4

Glosses for this Root
Beautified (x9) adornment (x4) [We] adorned (x4) and has made fair-seeming (x3) their adornment (x3) with an adornment (x2) made fair-seeming (x2) and its adornments (x2) and adorned it (x2) that was made fair-seeming (x1) and (as) adornment (x1) And We adorned (x1) surely, I will make (evil) fair-seeming (x1)	ornaments (x1) and its adornment (x1) and has made it pleasing (x1) (are) adornment (x1) (who) made fair-seeming (x1) your adornment (x1) and is beautified (x1) but made fair-seeming (x1) his adornment (x1) and adornment (x1) (of) the festival (x1)

Verse List

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