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38 times in the Quran · 8 word forms · rank 246
The Quran root ق ر ر q-r-r
Words built from the root ق ر ر ([q-r-r]) appear 38 times in the Quran. The most common is مُسْتَقَرّ, “dwelling place”, which comes 10 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| مُسْتَقَرّ | mustaqarr | dwelling place · abode | 10 | |
| قَرار | qaraar | settlement · stability | 9 | |
| تَقَرَّ | taqarra | may be cooled · cool | 5 | |
| أَقْرَرْ | aqrar | you ratified · Do you affirm | 4 | |
| قُرَّة | qurra | comfort | 3 | |
| مُسْتَقِرّ | mustaqirr | placed · settlement | 3 | |
| قَوارِيرا | qawaariiraa | glass · crystal | 3 | |
| اسْتَقَرَّ | astaqarra | it remains | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
فَأَزَلَّهُمَا الشَّيْطَانُ عَنْهَا فَأَخْرَجَهُمَا مِمَّا كَانَا فِيهِ وَقُلْنَا اهْبِطُوا بَعْضُكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّ وَلَكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ مُسْتَقَرٌّ وَمَتَاعٌ إِلَىٰ حِينٍ ٣٦
مُسْتَقَرٌّ mus'taqarrun · (is) a dwelling place
But Satan caused them to slip out of it and removed them from that [condition] in which they had been. And We said, "Go down, [all of you], as enemies to one another, and you will have upon the earth a place of settlement and provision for a time." (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:36)
لِّكُلِّ نَبَإٍ مُّسْتَقَرٌّ وَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ ٦٧
مُّسْتَقَرٌّ mus'taqarrun · (is) a fixed time
For every news [i.e., happening] is a finality; and you are going to know. (Surah Al-An'am, 6:67)
وَمَثَلُ كَلِمَةٍ خَبِيثَةٍ كَشَجَرَةٍ خَبِيثَةٍ اجْتُثَّتْ مِن فَوْقِ الْأَرْضِ مَا لَهَا مِن قَرَارٍ ٢٦
قَرَارٍ qarārin · stability
And the example of a bad word is like a bad tree, uprooted from the surface of the earth, not having any stability. (Surah Ibrahim, 14:26)
فَكُلِي وَاشْرَبِي وَقَرِّي عَيْنًا فَإِمَّا تَرَيِنَّ مِنَ الْبَشَرِ أَحَدًا فَقُولِي إِنِّي نَذَرْتُ لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ صَوْمًا فَلَنْ أُكَلِّمَ الْيَوْمَ إِنسِيًّا ٢٦
وَقَرِّي waqarrī · and cool
So eat and drink and be contented. And if you see from among humanity anyone, say, 'Indeed, I have vowed to the Most Merciful abstention, so I will not speak today to [any] man.'" (Surah Maryam, 19:26)
وَإِذْ أَخَذْنَا مِيثَاقَكُمْ لَا تَسْفِكُونَ دِمَاءَكُمْ وَلَا تُخْرِجُونَ أَنفُسَكُم مِّن دِيَارِكُمْ ثُمَّ أَقْرَرْتُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَشْهَدُونَ ٨٤
أَقْرَرْتُمْ aqrartum · you ratified
And [recall] when We took your covenant, [saying], "Do not shed your [i.e., each other's] blood or evict one another from your homes." Then you acknowledged [this] while you were witnessing. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:84)
وَالَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَاجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّاتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ وَاجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا ٧٤
قُرَّةَ qurrata · comfort
And those who say, "Our Lord, grant us from among our wives and offspring comfort to our eyes and make us a leader [i.e., example] for the righteous." (Surah Al-Furqan, 25:74)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-Furqan · 4×
- Surah An-Naml · 3×
- Surah Al-Baqarah · 2×
- Surah Al-An'am · 2×
- Surah Al-A'raf · 2×
- Surah Ibrahim · 2×
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.