Arabic root

ن-ذ-ر

Nun-Dhal-Ra

1 word from this root family

About this root

Nun-Dhal-Ra (ن-ذ-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: nadhīr (warner / one who warns).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 130 times in 115 verses, across 50 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:6. The form نَذِيرٌ (warner / one who warns) accounts for 58 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
نَذِيرٌ nadhīr	warner / one who warns	noun, B1	58×	Character, Community, and Worship

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

In the Quran

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ سَوَآءٌ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَأَنذَرْتَهُمْ أَمْ لَمْ تُنذِرْهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

As for the Disbelievers, Whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not.

Quran 2:6

إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَـٰكَ بِٱلْحَقِّ بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا ۖ وَلَا تُسْـَٔلُ عَنْ أَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْجَحِيمِ

Lo! We have sent thee (O Muhammad) with the truth, a bringer of glad tidings and a warner. And thou wilt not be asked about the owners of hell-fire.

Quran 2:119

وَمَآ أَنفَقْتُم مِّن نَّفَقَةٍ أَوْ نَذَرْتُم مِّن نَّذْرٍ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَعْلَمُهُۥ ۗ وَمَا لِلظَّـٰلِمِينَ مِنْ أَنصَارٍ

Whatever alms ye spend or vow ye vow, lo! Allah knoweth it. Wrong-doers have no helpers.

Quran 2:270

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

B1noun

نَذِيرٌ

nadhīr

warner / one who warns

Example

إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا

innā arsalnāka bil-ḥaqqi bashīran wa-nadhīrā

Indeed, We have sent you with the truth as a bringer of good tidings and a warner (2:119)

Root: ن-ذ-ر Quranic

Grammar

Active participle (faʿīl pattern) of أَنْذَرَ (to warn). Always paired with بَشِيرٌ (bearer of good news). Noun: نِذَارَةٌ / إِنْذَارٌ (warning).

Culture

Every prophet was both a bashīr (giver of good news to believers) and nadhīr (warner to disbelievers) - the dual prophetic message of hope and accountability.