Arabic root

ن-ث-ر

Nun-Tha-Ra

1 word from this root family

About this root

Nun-Tha-Ra (ن-ث-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: nathr (prose).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 3 times in 3 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 25:23.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
نَثْر nathr	prose	noun, B2	Poetry & Prose

In the Quran

وَقَدِمْنَآ إِلَىٰ مَا عَمِلُوا۟ مِنْ عَمَلٍ فَجَعَلْنَـٰهُ هَبَآءً مَّنثُورًا

And We shall turn unto the work they did and make it scattered motes.

Quran 25:23

۞ وَيَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ وِلْدَٰنٌ مُّخَلَّدُونَ إِذَا رَأَيْتَهُمْ حَسِبْتَهُمْ لُؤْلُؤًا مَّنثُورًا

There wait on them immortal youths, whom, when thou seest, thou wouldst take for scattered pearls.

Quran 76:19

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).