عزى

Core meaning

Proper noun. Al-Uzza is the second of the three female deities that the text names together, to refute the division made of them. The translation writes the name alone: "Al-Uzza".

Uses

1. ٱلْعُزَّىٰ → "Al-Uzza" : named between Al-Lat and Manat.

   • «أَفَرَءَيْتُمُ ٱللَّٰتَ وَٱلْعُزَّىٰ» — "Do you then see Al-Lat, and Al-Uzza" (53:19)

Evidence from the text

The name appears only once, in a closed list of three: Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat, "the third, the other". The text relates nothing of them: it moves at once to the division made between oneself and God, "Would the male be for you, and for Him the female?", and judges it: "That, then, would be an inequitable division" (53:22).

The next verse says what these names are worth: "They are nothing but attributes you have named, you and your forefathers" (53:23).

See also

لات (Al-Lat) · مناة (Manat)