10 times in the Quran · 3 word forms · rank 593

The Quran root ز ل ف z-l-f

Words built from the root ز ل ف ([z-l-f]) appear 10 times in the Quran. The most common is أُزْلِفَتْ, “We brought near”, which comes 4 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
أُزْلِفَتْ	uzlifat	We brought near · brought near	4
زُلْفَى	zulfaa	is a near access · position	4
زُلْفَة	zulfa	approach · approaching	2

Examples from the Quran

وَأَزْلَفْنَا ثَمَّ الْآخَرِينَ ٦٤

وَأَزْلَفْنَا wa-azlafnā · And We brought near

And We advanced thereto the others [i.e., the pursuers]. (Surah Ash-Shu'ara, 26:64)

وَأُزْلِفَتِ الْجَنَّةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ ٩٠

وَأُزْلِفَتِ wa-uz'lifati · And (will be) brought near

And Paradise will be brought near [that Day] to the righteous. (Surah Ash-Shu'ara, 26:90)

وَمَا أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَلَا أَوْلَادُكُم بِالَّتِي تُقَرِّبُكُمْ عِندَنَا زُلْفَىٰ إِلَّا مَنْ آمَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا فَأُولَٰئِكَ لَهُمْ جَزَاءُ الضِّعْفِ بِمَا عَمِلُوا وَهُمْ فِي الْغُرُفَاتِ آمِنُونَ ٣٧

زُلْفَىٰ zul'fā · (in) position

And it is not your wealth or your children that bring you nearer to Us in position, but it is [by being] one who has believed and done righteousness. For them there will be the double reward for what they did, and they will be in the upper chambers [of Paradise], safe [and secure]. (Surah Saba, 34:37)

وَأَقِمِ الصَّلَاةَ طَرَفَيِ النَّهَارِ وَزُلَفًا مِّنَ اللَّيْلِ إِنَّ الْحَسَنَاتِ يُذْهِبْنَ السَّيِّئَاتِ ذَٰلِكَ ذِكْرَىٰ لِلذَّاكِرِينَ ١١٤

وَزُلَفًا wazulafan · and (at) the approach

And establish prayer at the two ends of the day and at the approach of the night. Indeed, good deeds do away with misdeeds. That is a reminder for those who remember. (Surah Hud, 11:114)

Surahs where it comes most

Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.