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زَرَعَ

to sow

VerbForm IRoot ز-ر-ع

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Highlights

Present tense
يَزْرَعُ
Verbal noun
زَرْع
Active participle
زَارِع
Passive participle
مَزْرُوع

Most common words from the same root

Noun
مَزْرَعَة
farm
Noun
زِرَاعَة
agriculture
Noun
مُزَارِع
farmer
Noun
زَرْع
seed
Adjective
زِرَاعِيّ
agricultural
Noun
زِرَاعِيّ
agronomist

زَرَعَ in English

Verb · Form I

  1. to sow
  2. to spread, to scatter
  3. to plant (place a seed or plant in a substrate in order that it may live and grow; also used for planting of explosive charges, organs etc.)
  4. to till, to cultivate

Word origin

From Proto-Semitic *zarʕ- (“seed”). Cognate with Hebrew זֶרַע (zéra', “seed”), Akkadian 𒆰 (zērum, “seed”), Classical Syriac ܙܪܥܐ and Ugaritic 𐎄𐎗𐎓 (drʿ, “seed”).

Words from the root ز-ر-ع

Arabic verbs come in forms; each form's nouns are listed under its verb. See the whole root on one page →

زَرَعَ · present يَزْرَعُ
Form I · The plain action

to sow; to spread, to scatter; to plant (place a seed or plant in a substrate in order that it may live and grow; also used for planting of explosive charges, organs etc.)

زَرْع
Verbal noun
seed
زَرْع
Verbal noun
sowing
زَارِع
Active participle · Adjective
planting
زَارِع
Active participle
planter
مَزْرُوع
Passive participle · Adjective
planted
زَارَعَ · present يُزَارِعُ
Form III · Done to or with someone

to sharecrop

مُزَارَعَة
Verbal noun
مُزَارِع
Active participle
farmer
مُزَارَع
Passive participle
أَزْرَعَ · present يُزْرِعُ
Form IV · Causative

to get seeds; to make cultivate, to give for tilling

إِزْرَاع
Verbal noun
مُزْرِع
Active participle
مُزْرَع
Passive participle
اِزْدَرَعَ · present يَزْدَرِعُ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

to plant, sow

اِزْدِرَاع
Verbal noun
مُزْدَرِع
Active participle
مُزْدَرَع
Passive participle
مَزْرَعَة
Noun · f.
farm
زِرَاعَة
Noun · f.
agriculture
زِرَاعِيّ
Adjective
agricultural
زِرَاعِيّ
Noun · m.
agronomist
مَزْرَع
Noun · m.
field
زَرِّيعَة
Noun · f.
seed
تَزْرِيع
Noun · m.

زَرَعَ conjugation

Active voice. Present, subjunctive and jussive are the three moods of the non-past.

PronounPastPresentSubjunctiveJussiveImperative
أَنَا Iزَرَعْتُأَزْرَعُأَزْرَعَأَزْرَعْ—
أَنْتَ you (m.)زَرَعْتَتَزْرَعُتَزْرَعَتَزْرَعْاِزْرَعْ
أَنْتِ you (f.)زَرَعْتِتَزْرَعِينَتَزْرَعِيتَزْرَعِياِزْرَعِي
هُوَ heزَرَعَيَزْرَعُيَزْرَعَيَزْرَعْ—
هِيَ sheزَرَعَتْتَزْرَعُتَزْرَعَتَزْرَعْ—
أَنْتُمَا you twoزَرَعْتُمَاتَزْرَعَانِتَزْرَعَاتَزْرَعَااِزْرَعَا
هُمَا they two (m.)زَرَعَايَزْرَعَانِيَزْرَعَايَزْرَعَا—
هُمَا they two (f.)زَرَعَتَاتَزْرَعَانِتَزْرَعَاتَزْرَعَا—
نَحْنُ weزَرَعْنَانَزْرَعُنَزْرَعَنَزْرَعْ—
أَنْتُمْ you all (m.)زَرَعْتُمْتَزْرَعُونَتَزْرَعُواتَزْرَعُوااِزْرَعُوا
أَنْتُنَّ you all (f.)زَرَعْتُنَّتَزْرَعْنَتَزْرَعْنَتَزْرَعْنَاِزْرَعْنَ
هُمْ they (m.)زَرَعُوايَزْرَعُونَيَزْرَعُوايَزْرَعُوا—
هُنَّ they (f.)زَرَعْنَيَزْرَعْنَيَزْرَعْنَيَزْرَعْنَ—
Verbal nounزَرْع
Active participleزَارِع
Passive participleمَزْرُوع

زَرَعَ in a sentence

From a fully vowelled text

اَلزَّارِعُ يَزْرَعُ الْكَلِمَةَ.The sower soweth the word.Mark 4:14, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
أَزْرَعْ وَغَيْرِي يَأْكُلْ، وَفُرُوعِي تُسْتَأْصَلْ.Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.Job 31:8, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
«اسْمَعُوا! هُوَذَا الزَّارِعُ قَدْ خَرَجَ لِيَزْرَعَ،Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:Mark 4:3, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV

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