ع ذ ر Root ʿ-dh-r in the Qur’an 12 occurrences in 11 verses
- Occurrences
- 12
- Verses
- 11
- Surahs
- 8 of 114
- Words
- 5
Most Arabic words are built from a root of three letters, and words from one root share a core meaning. In the Qur’an, the root ع ذ ر (ʿ-dh-r) gives 5 words. It appears most in At-Tawbah (4), Al-Mursalat (2), Al-A'raf (1).
Words from this root
Meanings are the most common word-by-word translations of each word in the Qur’an.
| Word | Type | Times | Translated as |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَعْتَذِرُ | verb | 5 | make excuse, make excuses, They will make excuses |
| مَعْذِرَة | noun | 3 | absolved, their excuses, their excuse |
| عُذْر | noun | 2 | excuse, justification |
| مَعاذِير | noun | 1 | his excuses |
| مُعَذِّر | noun | 1 | ones who make excuses |
يَعْتَذِرُ 5 times
- 9:66 · At-Tawbahتَعْتَذِرُوا۟ make excuseMake no excuse; you have disbelieved after your belief. If We pardon one faction of you - We will punish another faction because they were criminals.
- 9:94 · At-Tawbahيَعْتَذِرُونَ They will make excusesThey will make excuses to you when you have returned to them. Say, "Make no excuse - never will we believe you. Allah has already informed us of your news. And Allah will observe your deeds, and [so will] His Messenger; then you will be taken back to the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, and He will inform you of what you used to do."
- 9:94 · At-Tawbahتَعْتَذِرُوا۟ make excuseThey will make excuses to you when you have returned to them. Say, "Make no excuse - never will we believe you. Allah has already informed us of your news. And Allah will observe your deeds, and [so will] His Messenger; then you will be taken back to the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, and He will inform you of what you used to do."
- 66:7 · At-Tahrimتَعْتَذِرُوا۟ make excusesO you who have disbelieved, make no excuses that Day. You will only be recompensed for what you used to do.
- 77:36 · Al-Mursalatفَيَعْتَذِرُونَ to make excusesNor will it be permitted for them to make an excuse.
مَعْذِرَة 3 times
- 7:164 · Al-A'rafمَعْذِرَةً To be absolvedAnd when a community among them said, "Why do you advise [or warn] a people whom Allah is [about] to destroy or to punish with a severe punishment?" they [the advisors] said, "To be absolved before your Lord and perhaps they may fear Him."
- 30:57 · Ar-Rumمَعْذِرَتُهُمْ their excusesSo that Day, their excuse will not benefit those who wronged, nor will they be asked to appease [Allah].
- 40:52 · Ghafirمَعْذِرَتُهُمْ ۖ their excuseThe Day their excuse will not benefit the wrongdoers, and they will have the curse, and they will have the worst home.
عُذْر 2 times
- 18:76 · Al-Kahfعُذْرًۭا an excuse[Moses] said, "If I should ask you about anything after this, then do not keep me as a companion. You have obtained from me an excuse."
- 77:6 · Al-Mursalatعُذْرًا (As) justificationAs justification or warning,
مَعاذِير 1 time
- 75:15 · Al-Qiyamahمَعَاذِيرَهُۥ his excusesEven if he presents his excuses.
مُعَذِّر 1 time
- 9:90 · At-Tawbahٱلْمُعَذِّرُونَ the ones who make excusesAnd those with excuses among the bedouins came to be permitted [to remain], and they who had lied to Allah and His Messenger sat [at home]. There will strike those who disbelieved among them a painful punishment.
How we count
Each Qur’an word whose stem comes from this root counts once. Attached prefixes and pronouns, such as wa- (and) or al- (the), are not counted separately. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. Verse translation: Saheeh International.
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