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زَرَع
to plant /zaˈraʕa/
verbB2#3964 most common
Also: to sow, to cultivate, to grow (crops)
Example sentences
هُوَ زَرَعَ شَجَرَةً.
He planted a tree.
زَرَعْتُ الطَّمَاطِمَ فِي الحَدِيقَةِ.
I planted tomatoes in the garden.
الفَلَّاحُ يَزْرَعُ القَمْحَ كُلَّ عَامٍ.
The farmer sows wheat every year.
زَرَعَتِ الحُكُومَةُ آلَافَ الأَشْجَارِ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ.
The government planted thousands of trees in the desert.
يَجِبُ أَنْ نَزْرَعَ بُذُورَ الثِّقَةِ بَيْنَ الأَجْيَالِ.
We must sow the seeds of trust between generations.
زُرِعَتْ هَذِهِ الأَرْضُ بِالقُطْنِ مُنْذُ عُقُودٍ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَحَوَّلَ المُزَارِعُونَ إِلَى زِرَاعَةِ الأُرْزِ.
This land was planted with cotton for decades before the farmers switched to growing rice.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَزْرَعُ | زَرَعْتُ | سَأَزْرَعُ |
| 2sg | تَزْرَعُ | زَرَعْتَ | سَتَزْرَعُ |
| 3sg | يَزْرَعُ | زَرَعَ | سَيَزْرَعُ |
| 1pl | نَزْرَعُ | زَرَعْنَا | سَنَزْرَعُ |
| 2pl | تَزْرَعُونَ | زَرَعْتُمْ | سَتَزْرَعُونَ |
| 3pl | يَزْرَعُونَ | زَرَعُوا | سَيَزْرَعُونَ |
Word family
زِرَاعَةagriculture, farming
مَزْرَعَةfarm
زَارِعone who sows or plants
مُزَارِعfarmer
زَرْعcrop, plantingEtymology
زَرَع comes from the Semitic root ز-ر-ع (z-r-ʕ), a core agricultural root found across the Semitic language family. It denotes the act of putting seed into the ground, and by extension farming and growth in general. The same root gives Arabic its everyday words for agriculture and farms. This is a Semitic root, not an Indo-European one, so it has no PIE ancestor.
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