13 times in the Quran · 3 word forms · rank 493

The Quran root ش ه و sh-h-w

Words built from the root ش ه و ([sh-h-w]) appear 13 times in the Quran. The most common is اشْتَهَتْ, “they desire”, which comes 8 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
اشْتَهَتْ	ashtahat	they desire · desire	8
شَهَوَة	shahawa	desire · passions	3
شَهْوَة	shahwa	lustfully · lust	2

Examples from the Quran

وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِلَّهِ الْبَنَاتِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَلَهُم مَّا يَشْتَهُونَ ٥٧

يَشْتَهُونَ yashtahūna · they desire

And they attribute to Allāh daughters - exalted is He - and for them is what they desire [i.e., sons]. (Surah An-Nahl, 16:57)

لَا يَسْمَعُونَ حَسِيسَهَا وَهُمْ فِي مَا اشْتَهَتْ أَنفُسُهُمْ خَالِدُونَ ١٠٢

اشْتَهَتْ ish'tahat · desire

They will not hear its sound, while they are, in that which their souls desire, abiding eternally. (Surah Al-Anbya, 21:102)

زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَالْبَنِينَ وَالْقَنَاطِيرِ الْمُقَنطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ وَالْخَيْلِ الْمُسَوَّمَةِ وَالْأَنْعَامِ وَالْحَرْثِ ذَٰلِكَ مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَاللَّهُ عِندَهُ حُسْنُ الْمَآبِ ١٤

الشَّهَوَاتِ l-shahawāti · (of) the (things they) desire

Beautified for people is the love of that which they desire - of women and sons, heaped-up sums of gold and silver, fine branded horses, and cattle and tilled land. That is the enjoyment of worldly life, but Allāh has with Him the best return [i.e., Paradise]. (Surah Ali 'Imran, 3:14)

إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ النِّسَاءِ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ ٨١

شَهْوَةً shahwatan · lustfully

Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people." (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:81)

Surahs where it comes most

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.