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12 times in the Quran · 5 word forms · rank 536
The Quran root ع ذ ر ʿ-dh-r
Words built from the root ع ذ ر ([ʿ-dh-r]) appear 12 times in the Quran. The most common is يَعْتَذِرُ, “make excuse”, which comes 5 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| يَعْتَذِرُ | yaʿtadhiru | make excuse · make excuses | 5 | |
| مَعْذِرَة | maʿdhira | be absolved · excuses | 3 | |
| عُذْر | ʿudhr | excuse · justification | 2 | |
| مُعَذِّر | muʿadhdhir | ones who make excuses | 1 | |
| مَعاذِير | maʿaadhiir | excuses | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا قَدْ كَفَرْتُم بَعْدَ إِيمَانِكُمْ إِن نَّعْفُ عَن طَائِفَةٍ مِّنكُمْ نُعَذِّبْ طَائِفَةً بِأَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ ٦٦
تَعْتَذِرُوا taʿtadhirū · make excuse
Make no excuse; you have disbelieved [i.e., rejected faith] after your belief. If We pardon one faction of you - We will punish another faction because they were criminals. (Surah At-Tawbah, 9:66)
يَعْتَذِرُونَ إِلَيْكُمْ إِذَا رَجَعْتُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ قُل لَّا تَعْتَذِرُوا لَن نُّؤْمِنَ لَكُمْ قَدْ نَبَّأَنَا اللَّهُ مِنْ أَخْبَارِكُمْ وَسَيَرَى اللَّهُ عَمَلَكُمْ وَرَسُولُهُ ثُمَّ تُرَدُّونَ إِلَىٰ عَالِمِ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ فَيُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ ٩٤
يَعْتَذِرُونَ yaʿtadhirūna · They will make excuses
They will make excuses to you when you have returned to them. Say, "Make no excuse - never will we believe you. Allāh has already informed us of your news [i.e., affair]. And Allāh 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." (Surah At-Tawbah, 9:94)
وَإِذْ قَالَتْ أُمَّةٌ مِّنْهُمْ لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوْمًا اللَّهُ مُهْلِكُهُمْ أَوْ مُعَذِّبُهُمْ عَذَابًا شَدِيدًا قَالُوا مَعْذِرَةً إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمْ وَلَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَّقُونَ ١٦٤
مَعْذِرَةً maʿdhiratan · To be absolved
And when a community among them said, "Why do you advise [or warn] a people whom Allāh 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." (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:164)
قَالَ إِن سَأَلْتُكَ عَن شَيْءٍ بَعْدَهَا فَلَا تُصَاحِبْنِي قَدْ بَلَغْتَ مِن لَّدُنِّي عُذْرًا ٧٦
عُذْرًا ʿudh'ran · 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." (Surah Al-Kahf, 18:76)
وَجَاءَ الْمُعَذِّرُونَ مِنَ الْأَعْرَابِ لِيُؤْذَنَ لَهُمْ وَقَعَدَ الَّذِينَ كَذَبُوا اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ سَيُصِيبُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ٩٠
الْمُعَذِّرُونَ l-muʿadhirūna · the ones who make excuses
And those with excuses among the bedouins came to be permitted [to remain], and they who had lied to Allāh and His Messenger sat [at home]. There will strike those who disbelieved among them a painful punishment. (Surah At-Tawbah, 9:90)
وَلَوْ أَلْقَىٰ مَعَاذِيرَهُ ١٥
مَعَاذِيرَهُ maʿādhīrahu · his excuses
Even if he presents his excuses. (Surah Al-Qiyamah, 75:15)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah At-Tawbah · 4×
- Surah Al-Mursalat · 2×
- Surah At-Tahrim · 1×
- Surah Al-A'raf · 1×
- Surah Ar-Rum · 1×
- Surah Ghafir · 1×
Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.