Arabic root

ذ-ك-ر

Dhal-Kaf-Ra

6 words from this root family

About this root

Dhal-Kaf-Ra (ذ-ك-ر) has 6 words in the Fahm dictionary: dhikr (remembrance / mention / reminder), dhikrā (reminder / admonition), dhakara (to remember / to mention), tadhakkara (to remember / to recall), and 2 more.

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 292 times in 264 verses, across 71 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:40. The form ذَكَرَ (to remember / to mention) accounts for 84 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Verbs, Cognition, Travel, Documents, Literature Arts

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
ذِكْرٌ dhikr	remembrance / mention / reminder	noun, A2	76×	Good and Evil
ذِكْرَى dhikrā	reminder / admonition	noun, B1	23×	Knowledge, Reflection, and Recitation
ذَكَرَ dhakara	to remember / to mention	verb, A1	84×	Action Verbs - Daily Activities
تَذَكَّرَ tadhakkara	to remember / to recall	verb, A1	51×	Action Verbs - Social Interactions
تَذْكِرة tadhkira	ticket	noun, A2		Taking a Flight
مُذَكِّرَات mudhakkirāt	memoirs	noun, B2		Literary Criticism

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

In the Quran

يَـٰبَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ ٱذْكُرُوا۟ نِعْمَتِىَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنْعَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأَوْفُوا۟ بِعَهْدِىٓ أُوفِ بِعَهْدِكُمْ وَإِيَّـٰىَ فَٱرْهَبُونِ

O Children of Israel! Remember My favour wherewith I favoured you, and fulfil your (part of the) covenant, I shall fulfil My (part of the) covenant, and fear Me.

Quran 2:40

يُؤْتِى ٱلْحِكْمَةَ مَن يَشَآءُ ۚ وَمَن يُؤْتَ ٱلْحِكْمَةَ فَقَدْ أُوتِىَ خَيْرًا كَثِيرًا ۗ وَمَا يَذَّكَّرُ إِلَّآ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلْأَلْبَـٰبِ

He giveth wisdom unto whom He will, and he unto whom wisdom is given, he truly hath received abundant good. But none remember except men of understanding.

Quran 2:269

ذَٰلِكَ نَتْلُوهُ عَلَيْكَ مِنَ ٱلْـَٔايَـٰتِ وَٱلذِّكْرِ ٱلْحَكِيمِ

This (which) We recite unto thee is a revelation and a wise reminder.

Quran 3:58

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).

Word cards with examples

A2noun

ذِكْرٌ

dhikr

remembrance / mention / reminder

Example

وَلَذِكْرُ اللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ

wa-ladhikru Allāhi akbar

And the remembrance of Allah is greater (29:45)

Root: ذ-ك-ر Quranic

Grammar

Masculine verbal noun (maṣdar) of ذَكَرَ. Also refers to the Quran itself (الذِّكْر = the Reminder). Related: تَذْكِيرٌ (reminding), مُذَكِّرٌ (reminder/one who reminds).

Culture

Dhikr encompasses all forms of remembering God: reciting the Quran, repeating His names, supplication, and contemplation. Sufi traditions especially emphasize dhikr circles.

B1noun

ذِكْرَى

dhikrā