Arabic root

غ-ي-ر

Ghayn-Ya-Ra

2 words from this root family

About this root

Ghayn-Ya-Ra (غ-ي-ر) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: ghayyara (to change / to alter), taghyīr (change).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 154 times in 146 verses, across 46 of the 114 suras. The first is in 1:7.

Themes: Verbs, Actions, Abstract Concepts

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
غَيَّرَ ghayyara	to change / to alter	verb, A1	Action Verbs - Thinking & Feeling
تَغْيِير taghyīr	change	noun, B1	Values & Beliefs

In the Quran

صِرَٰطَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا ٱلضَّآلِّينَ

The path of those whom Thou hast favoured; Not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray.

Quran 1:7

فَبَدَّلَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ قَوْلًا غَيْرَ ٱلَّذِى قِيلَ لَهُمْ فَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ رِجْزًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْسُقُونَ

But those who did wrong changed the word which had been told them for another saying, and We sent down upon the evil-doers wrath from heaven for their evil-doing.

Quran 2:59

ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَمْ يَكُ مُغَيِّرًا نِّعْمَةً أَنْعَمَهَا عَلَىٰ قَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا۟ مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ ۙ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ

That is because Allah never changeth the grace He hath bestowed on any people until they first change that which is in their hearts, and (that is) because Allah is Hearer, Knower.

Quran 8:53

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).