Home Quran Quran roots ق م ر
27 times in the Quran · 1 word form · rank 336
The Quran root ق م ر q-m-r
Words built from the root ق م ر ([q-m-r]) appear 27 times in the Quran. The most common is قَمَر, “moon”, which comes 27 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| قَمَر | qamar | moon | 27 |
Examples from the Quran
فَلَمَّا رَأَى الْقَمَرَ بَازِغًا قَالَ هَٰذَا رَبِّي فَلَمَّا أَفَلَ قَالَ لَئِن لَّمْ يَهْدِنِي رَبِّي لَأَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الضَّالِّينَ ٧٧
الْقَمَرَ l-qamara · the moon
And when he saw the moon rising, he said, "This is my lord." But when it set, he said, "Unless my Lord guides me, I will surely be among the people gone astray." (Surah Al-An'am, 6:77)
فَالِقُ الْإِصْبَاحِ وَجَعَلَ اللَّيْلَ سَكَنًا وَالشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ حُسْبَانًا ذَٰلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ الْعَزِيزِ الْعَلِيمِ ٩٦
وَالْقَمَرَ wal-qamara · and the moon
[He is] the cleaver of daybreak and has made the night for rest and the sun and moon for calculation. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing. (Surah Al-An'am, 6:96)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-An'am · 2×
- Surah Ya-Sin · 2×
- Surah Fussilat · 2×
- Surah Al-Qiyamah · 2×
- Surah Al-A'raf · 1×
- Surah Yunus · 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.
