اهتز

• IPA^(key): /ih.taz.za/

اِهْتَزَّ • (ihtazza) VIII (non-past يَهْتَزُّ (yahtazzu), verbal noun اِهْتِزَاز (ihtizāz))

1. (intransitive) to be moved, to tremble, to quiver, to writhe
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 27:10:

     وَأَلْقِ عَصَاكَ فَلَمَّا رَءَاهَا تَهْتَزُّ كَأَنَّهَا جَانٌّ وَلَّى مُدْبِرًا وَلَمْ يُعَقِّبْ

     waʔalqi ʕaṣāka falammā raʔāhā tahtazzu kaʔannahā jānnun wallā mudbiran walam yuʕaqqib

     And : “Throw down your staff.” But when he saw it writhing as if it were a snake, he turned in flight and did not return.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) (of plants) to develop, to grow longer or higher
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 22:5:

     وَتَرَى ٱلْأَرْضَ هَامِدَةً فَإِذَا أَنْزَلْنَا عَلَيْهَا ٱلْمَاءَ ٱهْتَزَّتْ وَرَبَتْ وَأَنْبَتَتْ مِنْ كُلِّ زَوْجٍ بَهِيجٍ

     watarā l-ʔarḍa hāmidatan faʔiḏā ʔanzalnā ʕalayhā l-māʔa htazzat warabat waʔanbatat min kulli zawjin bahījin

     And you see the earth barren, but when We send down upon it rain, it quivers and swells and grows of every beautiful kind.