و ز ن

و ز ن

Arabic

Etymology

The original consonant order is Proto-Semitic *mazan- (“to weigh”), rare Ge'ez መዘነ (mäzänä), but common Amharic መዘነ (mäzzänä), which was dissimilated in Arabic to a root w-z-n, and in Hebrew א־ז־ן‎ (ʔ-z-n), אִזֵּן‎ (ʾizḗn), מֹאזְנַיִם‎ (mōzənáyim), but apparently kept in Ugaritic 𐎎𐎇𐎐 (mzn, “weight”), 𐎎𐎇𐎐𐎎 (mznm, “scales”, dual), and in Aramaic and Akkadian to z-b-n as borrowed in زَبُون‎ (zabūn, “customer”), and as well in Arabic into ز م ل‎ (z-m-l).

Root

و ز ن • (w-z-n)

1. related to weighing

Derived terms

• Form I: وَزَنَ‎ (wazana, “to weigh”)
  • Verbal noun: وَزْن‎ (wazn), زِنَة‎ (zina)
  • Active participle: وَازِن‎ (wāzin)
  • Passive participle: مَوْزُون‎ (mawzūn)
• Form II: وَزَّنَ‎ (wazzana, “to find the weight of”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوْزِين‎ (tawzīn)
  • Active participle: مُوَزِّن‎ (muwazzin)
  • Passive participle: مُوَزَّن‎ (muwazzan)
• Form III: وَازَنَ‎ (wāzana, “to be of like weight to”)
  • Verbal noun: مُوَازَنَة‎ (muwāzana)
  • Active participle: مُوَازِن‎ (muwāzin)
  • Passive participle: مُوَازَن‎ (muwāzan)
• Form IV: أَوْزَنَ‎ (ʾawzana, “to accommodate”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيزَان‎ (ʾīzān)
  • Active participle: مُوزِن‎ (mūzin)
  • Passive participle: مُوزَن‎ (mūzan)
• Form VI: تَوَازَنَ‎ (tawāzana, “to be counterbalanced”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوَازُن‎ (tawāzun)
  • Active participle: مُتَوَازِن‎ (mutawāzin)
• Form VIII: اِتَّزَنَ‎ (ittazana, “to accept the weight of, to be harmonious with”)
  • Verbal noun: اِتِّزَان‎ (ittizān)
  • Active participle: مُتَّزِن‎ (muttazin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَّزَن‎ (muttazan)

• وَزْن‎ (wazn, “weight”)
  • وَزْنَة‎ (wazna, “a kind of weight”)
• وَزَّان‎ (wazzān)
• مِيزَان‎ (mīzān, “scales”)
• وَزِين‎ (wazīn, “weighty; considerable”)
  • أَوْزَن‎ (ʾawzan, “more weight; more considerable; more harmonious in meter”, elative)

References

• Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, pages 1344–1345
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “و ز ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 800a–801a
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