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Qur’an root words 1,651 Arabic roots, 50,268 words

Most Arabic words grow from a root of three letters. Learn a root and you can recognise dozens of words. Here is every root in the Qur’an with how often it appears. The 594 roots used 10 times or more have their own page with every verse.

Looking for a single word? See how many times it is mentioned in the Qur’an.

Most frequent roots

ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي

ا

ب

ت

ث

ج

ح

خ

د

ذ

ر

ز

س

ش

ص

ض

ط

ظ

ع

غ

ف

ق

ك

ل

م

ن

ه

و

ي

How we count

Each Qur’an word whose stem comes from a root counts once; attached prefixes and pronouns are not counted separately. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

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