Arabic root

م-ر-ر

Mim-Ra-Ra

3 words from this root family

About this root

Mim-Ra-Ra (م-ر-ر) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: murr (bitter), istamarra (to continue / to last), marra (time / occurrence).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 35 times in 32 verses, across 22 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:229. The form مَرَّة (time / occurrence) accounts for 20 of them.

Themes: Adjectives, Food, Taste, Verbs, Actions, Advanced Verbs, Numbers, Numbers Practical

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
مُرّ murr	bitter	adjective, A1		Spices, Sweets & More Food
اِسْتَمَرَّ istamarra	to continue / to last	verb, A1		Action Verbs - Miscellaneous
مَرَّة marra	time / occurrence	noun, A1	20×	Practical Number Words

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

In the Quran

وَنُقَلِّبُ أَفْـِٔدَتَهُمْ وَأَبْصَـٰرَهُمْ كَمَا لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِهِۦٓ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَنَذَرُهُمْ فِى طُغْيَـٰنِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ

We confound their hearts and their eyes. As they believed not therein at the first, We let them wander blindly on in their contumacy.

Quran 6:110

وَيَصْنَعُ ٱلْفُلْكَ وَكُلَّمَا مَرَّ عَلَيْهِ مَلَأٌ مِّن قَوْمِهِۦ سَخِرُوا۟ مِنْهُ ۚ قَالَ إِن تَسْخَرُوا۟ مِنَّا فَإِنَّا نَسْخَرُ مِنكُمْ كَمَا تَسْخَرُونَ

And he was building the ship, and every time that chieftains of his people passed him, they made mock of him. He said: Though ye make mock of Us, yet We mock at you even as ye mock;

Quran 11:38

وَإِن يَرَوْا۟ ءَايَةً يُعْرِضُوا۟ وَيَقُولُوا۟ سِحْرٌ مُّسْتَمِرٌّ

And if they behold a portent they turn away and say: Prolonged illusion.

Quran 54:2

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).