زَرْعٌ crops in Arabic
زَرْعٌ is how you say “crops” in Arabic.
Root ز ر ع z-r-ʿ. noun (verbal noun / maṣdar). zarʿ.
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Meaning of crops in Arabic
- seed-produce; crops What is raised by sowing — used of standing (growing) crop as well as after it has been reaped; predominant application is to wheat and barley, though it can cover plants or herbage more generally. Plural: زُرُوع (zurūʿ).
- offspring, children Tropical (figurative) use, e.g. هٰؤُلَآءِ زَرْعُ فُلَانٍ 'these are the children of so-and-so' — the same 'sowing/growth' imagery applied to a person's descendants.
Example sentence
كَمَا يتولّد الزَّرْع عَن المَاء والإحراق عَن النَّار
Just as crops arise from water and burning from fire.
الزَّرْعُ crops
al- = 'the'; zar' means 'crops, planting' — the subject of 'arises'.
The English is machine-translated.
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Words from the same root
- زَرَعَ to sow, cast seed (form I; also used transitively, e.g. 'he sowed wheat and barley')
- ازرع (of seed-produce) to grow from its seed, become tall, or reach the time for reaping (form IV)
- اِزْدَرَعَ to sow, cast seed — an assimilated form of the same root (form VIII, originally اِزْتَرَعَ)
- مُزَارَعَةٌ a sharecropping contract: bargaining with another to till and sow land for a share of its produce (form III)
- زَارِعٌ one who sows; a sower, or causer of growth (active participle, as in the Qur'anic 'are you the sowers, or are We?')
- أَسْتَزْرِعُ to ask God to make (someone, e.g. one's child) grow up sound/for good (form X)
More example sentences
قال نعم يا سيدي، ناقته دخلت حائطي وأكلت زرعي، فحبستها حتى يأتي صاحبها
He replied: Yes, my lord, his camel entered my field and ate my crops, so I detained it until its owner comes.
زَرْعِي my crops
This is 'crop, sown field' with the attached 'my', a possessive, the crops belonging to the speaker. It is the object of 'ate', what the camel consumed. The suffix marks the produce as the neighbor's.
قال الجار أكلت زرعًا قيمته عشرة دراهم
The neighbor said: It ate crops worth ten dirhams.
زَرْعًا crops
This is 'crops, sown produce', indefinite, the object of 'ate', so it takes the accusative ending that marks the thing acted upon. It is then qualified by a value phrase that follows. It names what the camel consumed.
وَزَرْعٌ إِسْمَاعِيلُ، وَضِئْضِئِي مَعَدٌ، وَعُنْصُرُ مُضَرٌّ،
and the offspring of Isma'il, the descendants of Ma'ad, and the branch of Mudar.
وَزَرْعٌ and offspring
Front wa- is the plain joiner 'and', tacking this item onto the previous list of lineage claims. The noun it carries is being lined up in parallel with the earlier items, so wa- here is doing list-building work, stacking one descent term beside another.
Common questions
- How do you say "crops" in Arabic?
- زَرْعٌ (zarʿ) — seed-produce, what is sown and grown, whether still standing or already reaped.
- Does زَرْعٌ (zarʿ) ever mean something other than crops?
- Yes — figuratively it can mean 'offspring, children', as in the phrase هٰؤُلَآءِ زَرْعُ فُلَانٍ, 'these are the children of so-and-so.'
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).