Arabic root

ب-ر-ا

Ba-Ra-Alif

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ba-Ra-Alif (ب-ر-ا) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: barāʾa (innocence / acquittal).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 31 times in 28 verses, across 20 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:54.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
بَرَاءة barāʾa	innocence / acquittal	noun, B2	Courts & Legal System

In the Quran

إِذْ تَبَرَّأَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتُّبِعُوا۟ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّبَعُوا۟ وَرَأَوُا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ وَتَقَطَّعَتْ بِهِمُ ٱلْأَسْبَابُ

(On the day) when those who were followed disown those who followed (them), and they behold the doom, and all their aims collapse with them.

Quran 2:166

وَمَن يَكْسِبْ خَطِيٓـَٔةً أَوْ إِثْمًا ثُمَّ يَرْمِ بِهِۦ بَرِيٓـًٔا فَقَدِ ٱحْتَمَلَ بُهْتَـٰنًا وَإِثْمًا مُّبِينًا

And whoso committeth a delinquency or crime, then throweth (the blame) thereof upon the innocent, hath burdened himself with falsehood and a flagrant crime.

Quran 4:112

بَرَآءَةٌ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِۦٓ إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ عَـٰهَدتُّم مِّنَ ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ

Freedom from obligation (is proclaimed) from Allah and His messenger toward those of the idolaters with whom ye made a treaty.

Quran 9:1

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).