Mim-Tah-Ra
1 word from this root family
Mim-Tah-Ra (م-ط-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: maṭar (rain).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 15 times in 9 verses, across 9 of the 114 suras. The first is in 4:102. The form مَطَرٌ (rain) accounts for 7 of them.
Themes: Quranic
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
مَطَرٌ maṭar | rain | noun, A1 | 7× | The Natural World in the Quran, Landscapes & Geography |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِم مَّطَرًا ۖ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَـٰقِبَةُ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَAnd We rained a rain upon them. See now the nature of the consequence of evil-doers!
وَإِذْ قَالُوا۟ ٱللَّهُمَّ إِن كَانَ هَـٰذَا هُوَ ٱلْحَقَّ مِنْ عِندِكَ فَأَمْطِرْ عَلَيْنَا حِجَارَةً مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ أَوِ ٱئْتِنَا بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍAnd when they said: O Allah! If this be indeed the truth from Thee, then rain down stones on us or bring on us some painful doom!
فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ عَارِضًا مُّسْتَقْبِلَ أَوْدِيَتِهِمْ قَالُوا۟ هَـٰذَا عَارِضٌ مُّمْطِرُنَا ۚ بَلْ هُوَ مَا ٱسْتَعْجَلْتُم بِهِۦ ۖ رِيحٌ فِيهَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌThen, when they beheld it as a dense cloud coming toward their valleys, they said: Here is a cloud bringing us rain. Nay, but it is that which ye did seek to hasten, a wind wherein is painful torment,
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).
Masculine noun. Verb: أَمْطَرَ (to rain down). In the Quran, rain symbolizes both mercy (provision) and punishment (stones rained on sinful nations).
Rain in the Quran is a sign of God's mercy and power to revive the dead earth - used as an analogy for resurrection.