Arabic root

ا-خ-و

Alif-Kha-Waw

2 words from this root family

About this root

Alif-Kha-Waw (ا-خ-و) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: akh (brother), ukht (sister).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 96 times in 80 verses, across 31 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:178. The form أَخ (brother) accounts for 75 of them.

Themes: Family, Basics

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
أَخ akh	brother	noun, A1	75×	Immediate Family
أُخْت ukht	sister	noun, A1	14×	Immediate Family

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوا۟ لِإِخْوَٰنِهِمْ وَقَعَدُوا۟ لَوْ أَطَاعُونَا مَا قُتِلُوا۟ ۗ قُلْ فَٱدْرَءُوا۟ عَنْ أَنفُسِكُمُ ٱلْمَوْتَ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰدِقِينَ

Those who, while they sat at home, said of their brethren (who were fighting for the cause of Allah): If they had been guided by us they would not have been slain. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Then avert death from yourselves if ye are truthful.

Quran 3:168

قَالَ يَـٰبُنَىَّ لَا تَقْصُصْ رُءْيَاكَ عَلَىٰٓ إِخْوَتِكَ فَيَكِيدُوا۟ لَكَ كَيْدًا ۖ إِنَّ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنَ لِلْإِنسَـٰنِ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ

He said: O my dear son! Tell not thy brethren of thy vision, lest they plot a plot against thee. Lo! Satan is for man an open foe.

Quran 12:5

يَـٰٓأُخْتَ هَـٰرُونَ مَا كَانَ أَبُوكِ ٱمْرَأَ سَوْءٍ وَمَا كَانَتْ أُمُّكِ بَغِيًّا

O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.

Quran 19:28

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).