Home Quran Quran roots خ س ر
65 times in the Quran · 10 word forms · rank 167
The Quran root خ س ر kh-s-r
Words built from the root خ س ر ([kh-s-r]) appear 65 times in the Quran. The most common is خاسِر, “losers”, which comes 32 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| خاسِر | khaasir | losers · certainly losers | 32 | |
| خَسِرَ | khasira | lost · have lost | 16 | |
| أَخْسَر | akhsar | greatest losers | 4 | |
| خُسْران | khusraan | loss | 3 | |
| خَسار | khasaar | loss | 3 | |
| يُخْسِرُ | yukhsiru | make deficient · they give less | 2 | |
| خُسْر | khusr | loss | 2 | |
| تَخْسِير | takhsiir | loss | 1 | |
| مُخْسِر | mukhsir | those who cause loss | 1 | |
| خاسِرَة | khaasira | losing | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
الَّذِينَ يَنقُضُونَ عَهْدَ اللَّهِ مِن بَعْدِ مِيثَاقِهِ وَيَقْطَعُونَ مَا أَمَرَ اللَّهُ بِهِ أَن يُوصَلَ وَيُفْسِدُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ ٢٧
الْخَاسِرُونَ l-khāsirūna · (are) the losers
Who break the covenant of Allāh after contracting it and sever that which Allāh has ordered to be joined and cause corruption on earth. It is those who are the losers. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:27)
ثُمَّ تَوَلَّيْتُم مِّن بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ فَلَوْلَا فَضْلُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَتُهُ لَكُنتُم مِّنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ ٦٤
الْخَاسِرِينَ l-khāsirīna · the losers
Then you turned away after that. And if not for the favor of Allāh upon you and His mercy, you would have been among the losers. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:64)
وَلَأُضِلَّنَّهُمْ وَلَأُمَنِّيَنَّهُمْ وَلَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّ آذَانَ الْأَنْعَامِ وَلَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ اللَّهِ وَمَن يَتَّخِذِ الشَّيْطَانَ وَلِيًّا مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ فَقَدْ خَسِرَ خُسْرَانًا مُّبِينًا ١١٩
خَسِرَ khasira · he (has) lost
And I will mislead them, and I will arouse in them [sinful] desires, and I will command them so they will slit the ears of cattle, and I will command them so they will change the creation of Allāh." And whoever takes Satan as an ally instead of Allāh has certainly sustained a clear loss. (Surah An-Nisa, 4:119)
لَا جَرَمَ أَنَّهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ هُمُ الْأَخْسَرُونَ ٢٢
الْأَخْسَرُونَ l-akhsarūna · (will be) the greatest losers
Assuredly, it is they in the Hereafter who will be the greatest losers. (Surah Hud, 11:22)
وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ حَرْفٍ فَإِنْ أَصَابَهُ خَيْرٌ اطْمَأَنَّ بِهِ وَإِنْ أَصَابَتْهُ فِتْنَةٌ انقَلَبَ عَلَىٰ وَجْهِهِ خَسِرَ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةَ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ الْخُسْرَانُ الْمُبِينُ ١١
الْخُسْرَانُ l-khus'rānu · (is) the loss
And of the people is he who worships Allāh on an edge. If he is touched by good, he is reassured by it; but if he is struck by trial, he turns on his face [to unbelief]. He has lost [this] world and the Hereafter. That is what is the manifest loss. (Surah Al-Hajj, 22:11)
وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلَا يَزِيدُ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا خَسَارًا ٨٢
خَسَارًا khasāran · (in) loss
And We send down of the Qur’ān that which is healing and mercy for the believers, but it does not increase the wrongdoers except in loss. (Surah Al-Isra, 17:82)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-A'raf · 8×
- Surah Az-Zumar · 5×
- Surah Al-Ma'idah · 4×
- Surah Hud · 4×
- Surah Al-An'am · 4×
- Surah Al-Baqarah · 3×
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.