The root of every word in the Quran. Pick an ayah to see each of its words with its root.
Most Arabic words are built from a root: a few consonants that carry a core meaning. Different patterns of vowels and extra letters around those consonants make different, related words. Most roots have three letters; a few have four.
This resource gives the root of every word that has one, so you can group words by meaning and find every word in the Quran that comes from the same root.
The root ر ح م (rHm) is about
mercy. It appears 339 times in the Quran, in words such as:
| Word | Location | Meaning | Words from this lemma |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلرَّحِيمِ | 1:3:2 |
the Especially Merciful | 116 |
| رَحۡمَةٗ | 44:6:1 |
mercy | 114 |
| ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ | 1:3:1 |
the Most Merciful | 57 |
| رَحِمۡنَٰهُمۡ | 23:75:2 |
We had mercy on them | 28 |
| أَرۡحَامُكُمۡ | 60:3:3 |
your relatives (literally "wombs") | 12 |
| بِٱلۡمَرۡحَمَةِ | 90:17:9 |
to compassion | 1 |
About 50,300 of the Quran's words have a root. Particles such as
مِنَ ("from", 2:22:9), pronouns and
demonstratives such as ذَٰلِكَ ("that",
2:2:1) are not built from a root, so they have no row in this data.
The download is a SQLite database with two tables: roots (1,642 rows, one per root) and
root_words (one row per word that has a root).
roots| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id |
INTEGER | Root id, used by root_words.root_id |
arabic_trilateral |
TEXT | Root letters in Arabic, separated by spaces |
english_trilateral |
TEXT | The same letters in Latin script, one letter each (see below) |
words_count |
INTEGER | How many words in the Quran come from this root |
uniq_words_count |
INTEGER | How many different word forms those words take |
id | arabic_trilateral | english_trilateral | words_count | uniq_words_count
1356 | ر ح م | rHm | 339 | 47
450 | ح م د | Hmd | 68 | 13
1572 | ع ل م | Elm | 854 | 106
686 | ك و ك ب | kwkb | 5 | 3english_trilateral
Each Arabic letter is written as exactly one Latin character, using the Buckwalter transliteration.
Upper and lower case are different letters: H is ح
and h is ه.
A ا |
b ب |
t ت |
v ث |
j ج |
H ح |
x خ |
d د |
* ذ |
r ر |
z ز |
s س |
$ ش |
S ص |
D ض |
T ط |
Z ظ |
E ع |
g غ |
f ف |
q ق |
k ك |
l ل |
m م |
n ن |
h ه |
w و |
y ي |
root_words| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
root_id |
INTEGER | The word's root, from roots.id |
word_location |
TEXT | Word position as surah:ayah:word, e.g. 1:1:3 is the third word of the first ayah |
root_id | word_location
1356 | 1:1:3
450 | 1:2:1
1572 | 2:31:1SELECT roots.*
FROM root_words
JOIN roots ON roots.id = root_words.root_id
WHERE root_words.word_location = '1:1:3';
-- 1356 | ر ح م | rHm | 339 | 47SELECT root_words.word_location
FROM root_words
JOIN roots ON roots.id = root_words.root_id
WHERE roots.english_trilateral = 'rHm'; -- 339 locationsSELECT arabic_trilateral, english_trilateral, words_count
FROM roots
ORDER BY words_count DESC
LIMIT 10;SELECT arabic_trilateral, english_trilateral, words_count
FROM roots
WHERE length(english_trilateral) = 4; -- 40 rootsLoading…