# Zal-Ra-Vav — ذرو (prw)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/prw

- **Meaning:** To scatter (seeds), disperse, uproot, fall, snatch/carry away, raise or make it fly, raise (dust) wind, eliminate or select by sifting, blow the chaff (from grain), sift, sort out, to hasten.
- **Derived forms:** تَذْرُو (1) · ذَّٰرِيَٰت (1) · ذَرْو (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 45

- **Form in this verse:** تَذْرُوهُ — tadhrūhu · "it (is) scattered"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

وَاضْرِبْ لَهُمْ مَثَلَ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَٓاءٍ اَنْزَلْنَاهُ مِنَ السَّمَٓاءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِه۪ نَبَاتُ الْاَرْضِ فَاَصْبَحَ هَش۪يماً تَذْرُوهُ الرِّيَاحُۜ وَكَانَ اللّٰهُ عَلٰى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مُقْتَدِراً

Wadrib lahum mathala alhayatiaddunya kama-in anzalnahu mina assama-ifakhtalata bihi nabatu al-ardi faasbahahasheeman tathroohu arriyahu wakanaAllahu AAala kulli shay-in muqtadira

And strike thou for them the similitude of the life of this world: — as water which We send down from the sky, then the vegetation of the earth mingles with it; then it becomes dry stalks which the winds scatter. And God is omnipotent over everything.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-45.md_

### 51. Surah Adh-Dhariyat, Verse 1

- **Form in this verse:** وَٱلذَّٰرِيَـٰتِ — wal-dhāriyāti · "By those scattering"
  - **Grammar:** noun · active · feminine, plural · genitive case

وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْواًۙ

Waththariyati tharwa

By those scattering, dispersing,

_https://quran.so/surah-adh-dhariyat/verse-1.md_

### 51. Surah Adh-Dhariyat, Verse 1

- **Form in this verse:** ذَرْوًۭا — dharwan · "dispersing"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْواًۙ

Waththariyati tharwa

By those scattering, dispersing,

_https://quran.so/surah-adh-dhariyat/verse-1.md_

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