The verb means to shine, to rise, said first of the sun. From that single sunrise the whole family grows. The place where the sun rises is the east (mizrach), so the word for east is built right into the verb. Then comes a leap that surprises learners: the citizen (ezrach), one rooted in the land like the sun that rises over it. Watch one dawn radiate into geography and even nationality. Every word here is verified against pealim, niqqud included.
The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.
Only the plain pa'al is in everyday use. The sun does its own rising, so the root needs no causative or passive partner here; the action-side of the family lives almost entirely in nouns and place-words built off that one verb.
Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.
Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.