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21 times in the Quran · 10 word forms · rank 398
The Quran root ن ش ر n-sh-r
Words built from the root ن ش ر ([n-sh-r]) appear 21 times in the Quran. The most common is نُشُور, “resurrection”, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| نُشُور | nushuur | resurrection | 5 | |
| نُشِرَتْ | nushirat | Will spread · spreads | 3 | |
| أَنشَرَ | anshara | raise · We revive | 3 | |
| تَنتَشِرُ | tantashiru | disperse · dispersing | 3 | |
| مَنشُور | manshuur | wide open · unrolled | 2 | |
| مُنشَر | munshar | raised again | 1 | |
| مُنتَشِر | muntashir | spreading | 1 | |
| مُنَشَّرَة | munashshara | spread out | 1 | |
| ناشِرَة | naashira | ones that scatter | 1 | |
| نَشْر | nashr | far and wide | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
وَاتَّخَذُوا مِن دُونِهِ آلِهَةً لَّا يَخْلُقُونَ شَيْئًا وَهُمْ يُخْلَقُونَ وَلَا يَمْلِكُونَ لِأَنفُسِهِمْ ضَرًّا وَلَا نَفْعًا وَلَا يَمْلِكُونَ مَوْتًا وَلَا حَيَاةً وَلَا نُشُورًا ٣
نُشُورًا nushūran · resurrection
But they have taken besides Him gods which create nothing, while they are created, and possess not for themselves any harm or benefit and possess not [power to cause] death or life or resurrection. (Surah Al-Furqan, 25:3)
وَلَقَدْ أَتَوْا عَلَى الْقَرْيَةِ الَّتِي أُمْطِرَتْ مَطَرَ السَّوْءِ أَفَلَمْ يَكُونُوا يَرَوْنَهَا بَلْ كَانُوا لَا يَرْجُونَ نُشُورًا ٤٠
نُشُورًا nushūran · Resurrection
And they have already come upon the town which was showered with a rain of evil [i.e., stones]. So have they not seen it? But they are not expecting resurrection. (Surah Al-Furqan, 25:40)
وَإِذِ اعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ فَأْوُوا إِلَى الْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحْمَتِهِ وَيُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًا ١٦
يَنشُرْ yanshur · Will spread
[The youths said to one another], "And when you have withdrawn from them and that which they worship other than Allāh, retreat to the cave. Your Lord will spread out for you of His mercy and will prepare for you from your affair facility." (Surah Al-Kahf, 18:16)
أَمِ اتَّخَذُوا آلِهَةً مِّنَ الْأَرْضِ هُمْ يُنشِرُونَ ٢١
يُنشِرُونَ yunshirūna · raise (the dead)
Or have they [i.e., men] taken for themselves gods from the earth who resurrect [the dead]? (Surah Al-Anbya, 21:21)
وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ إِذَا أَنتُم بَشَرٌ تَنتَشِرُونَ ٢٠
تَنتَشِرُونَ tantashirūna · dispersing
And of His signs is that He created you from dust; then, suddenly you were human beings dispersing [throughout the earth]. (Surah Ar-Rum, 30:20)
وَكُلَّ إِنسَانٍ أَلْزَمْنَاهُ طَائِرَهُ فِي عُنُقِهِ وَنُخْرِجُ لَهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ كِتَابًا يَلْقَاهُ مَنشُورًا ١٣
مَنشُورًا manshūran · wide open
And [for] every person We have imposed his fate upon his neck, and We will produce for him on the Day of Resurrection a record which he will encounter spread open. (Surah Al-Isra, 17:13)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-Furqan · 3×
- Surah Al-Mursalat · 2×
- Surah Fatir · 1×
- Surah Al-Mulk · 1×
- Surah Al-Kahf · 1×
- Surah Ash-Shuraa · 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.