Arabic word sheet
حَزِنَ
To be sad, to grieve
- Type
- verb
- Root
- ح ز ن
Meaning and usage
To be sad, to grieve
To feel sorrow or sadness. Said of a person affected by a painful event. It is also said of the sorrow felt because of a person or a thing, which one mourns.
حَزِنَ رَامِي حِينَ سَافَرَ صَدِيقُهُ.
Rami was sad when his friend went away.
حَزِنَتْ لَيْلَى عَلَى قِطَّتِهَا الْمَرِيضَةِ.
Layla grieved over her sick cat.
Word family
What the root means ح ز ن
The root carries the idea of roughness and hardness: that of rugged ground, and that which weighs on the heart. From it come “sorrow”, “to sadden”, “sad” and “roughness of the ground”.
sorrow, sadness
حُزْنٌ
to sadden
أَحْزَنَ
sad
حَزِينٌ
to grieve, to show grief
تَحَزَّنَ
roughness of the ground
حُزُونَةٌ
Synonyms
to be weighed down by worry
اِغْتَمَّ
It expresses the gloom of someone oppressed by worry, rather than the pain caused by a loss.
Opposites
to be glad
فَرِحَ