Arabic root

ع-و-ر

Ayn-Waw-Ra

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ayn-Waw-Ra (ع-و-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: istiʿāra (metaphor).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 3 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 24:31.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
اِسْتِعَارَة istiʿāra	metaphor	noun, B2	Poetry & Prose

In the Quran

وَإِذْ قَالَت طَّآئِفَةٌ مِّنْهُمْ يَـٰٓأَهْلَ يَثْرِبَ لَا مُقَامَ لَكُمْ فَٱرْجِعُوا۟ ۚ وَيَسْتَـْٔذِنُ فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُمُ ٱلنَّبِىَّ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ بُيُوتَنَا عَوْرَةٌ وَمَا هِىَ بِعَوْرَةٍ ۖ إِن يُرِيدُونَ إِلَّا فِرَارًا

And when a party of them said: O folk of Yathrib! There is no stand (possible) for you, therefor turn back. And certain of them (even) sought permission of the Prophet, saying: Our homes lie open (to the enemy). And they lay not open. They but wished to flee.

Quran 33:13

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).