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The Quran root ر ع ي r-ʿ-y

Words built from the root ر ع ي ([r-ʿ-y]) appear 10 times in the Quran. The most common is راعِ, “Raina”, which comes 2 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

WordSay itMeaningTimes
راعِraaʿiRaina2
رَعَraʿapasture · they observed it2
راعيraaʿyobservers2
مَرْعَىmarʿaapasture2
رِعاءriʿaa’shepherds1
رِعايَتriʿaayatobservance1

Examples from the Quran

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَقُولُوا رَاعِنَا وَقُولُوا انظُرْنَا وَاسْمَعُوا وَلِلْكَافِرِينَ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ١٠٤

رَاعِنَا rāʿinā · Raina

O you who have believed, say not [to Allāh's Messenger], "Rāʿinā" but say, "Unẓurnā" and listen. And for the disbelievers is a painful punishment. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:104)

مِّنَ الَّذِينَ هَادُوا يُحَرِّفُونَ الْكَلِمَ عَن مَّوَاضِعِهِ وَيَقُولُونَ سَمِعْنَا وَعَصَيْنَا وَاسْمَعْ غَيْرَ مُسْمَعٍ وَرَاعِنَا لَيًّا بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ وَطَعْنًا فِي الدِّينِ وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا وَاسْمَعْ وَانظُرْنَا لَكَانَ خَيْرًا لَّهُمْ وَأَقْوَمَ وَلَٰكِن لَّعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِكُفْرِهِمْ فَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا ٤٦

وَرَاعِنَا warāʿinā · and "Raina

Among the Jews are those who distort words from their [proper] places [i.e., usages] and say, "We hear and disobey" and "Hear but be not heard" and "Rāʿinā," twisting their tongues and defaming the religion. And if they had said [instead], "We hear and obey" and "Wait for us [to understand]," it would have been better for them and more suitable. But Allāh has cursed them for their disbelief, so they believe not, except for a few. (Surah An-Nisa, 4:46)

كُلُوا وَارْعَوْا أَنْعَامَكُمْ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّأُولِي النُّهَىٰ ٥٤

وَارْعَوْا wa-ir'ʿaw · and pasture

Eat [therefrom] and pasture your livestock. Indeed in that are signs for those of intelligence. (Surah Taha, 20:54)

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَانَاتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَاعُونَ ٨

رَاعُونَ rāʿūna · (are) observers

And they who are to their trusts and their promises attentive (Surah Al-Mu'minun, 23:8)

أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءَهَا وَمَرْعَاهَا ٣١

وَمَرْعَاهَا wamarʿāhā · and its pasture

He extracted from it its water and its pasture, (Surah An-Nazi'at, 79:31)

وَلَمَّا وَرَدَ مَاءَ مَدْيَنَ وَجَدَ عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةً مِّنَ النَّاسِ يَسْقُونَ وَوَجَدَ مِن دُونِهِمُ امْرَأَتَيْنِ تَذُودَانِ قَالَ مَا خَطْبُكُمَا قَالَتَا لَا نَسْقِي حَتَّىٰ يُصْدِرَ الرِّعَاءُ وَأَبُونَا شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ ٢٣

الرِّعَاءُ l-riʿāu · the shepherds

And when he came to the water [i.e., well] of Madyan, he found there a crowd of people watering [their flocks], and he found aside from them two women holding back [their flocks]. He said, "What is your circumstance?" They said, "We do not water until the shepherds dispatch [their flocks]; and our father is an old man." (Surah Al-Qasas, 28:23)

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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.