Quran glossary · draft

عَجُوز

aged woman

A woman marked by advanced age and reduced physical capacity.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 4

Roots: عجز

Lemmas: عجوز

Forms: عَجُوزٌ · عَجُوزًا

Occurrence examples (4 of 4)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.

11:72

قَالَتْ يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ ءَأَلِدُ وَأَنَا۠ عَجُوزٌ وَهَٰذَا بَعْلِى شَيْخًا إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَشَىْءٌ عَجِيبٌ

26:171

إِلَّا عَجُوزًا فِى ٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ

37:135

إِلَّا عَجُوزًا فِى ٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ

51:29

فَأَقْبَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ فِى صَرَّةٍ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal core tested across all 26 family occurrences and targets. Form I states inability; Form IV finite and participial forms profile causing another's capacity to fail or trying to escape divine reach; Form III participles accompany striving against the signs and remain semantically reviewable. عَجُوز profiles a woman whose advanced age is highlighted in contexts of birth or survival. The two أَعْجَاز نخل segments instead name physical palm-trunk bases after destructive wind and are isolated as an exact lexical collision. No protected or pre-run meaning was edited.