Arabic root

ق-ر-ا

Qaf-Ra-Alif

4 words from this root family

About this root

Qaf-Ra-Alif (ق-ر-ا) has 4 words in the Fahm dictionary: yaqraʾu (he reads), qurʾān (Quran / recitation), qaraʾa (to read), qirāʾa (reading).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 88 times in 79 verses, across 42 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:185. The form قَرَأَ (to read) accounts for 16 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Basics, Quranic, Communication, Hobbies

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
يَقْرَأُ yaqraʾu	he reads	verb, A1		Essential Verbs
قُرْآنٌ qurʾān	Quran / recitation	noun, B1		Community and Society
قَرَأَ qaraʾa	to read	verb, A1	16×	Action Verbs - Daily Activities
قِراءة qirāʾa	reading	noun, A2		Sports & Exercise

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

In the Quran

أَفَلَا يَتَدَبَّرُونَ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ ۚ وَلَوْ كَانَ مِنْ عِندِ غَيْرِ ٱللَّهِ لَوَجَدُوا۟ فِيهِ ٱخْتِلَـٰفًا كَثِيرًا

Will they not then ponder on the Qur'an? If it had been from other than Allah they would have found therein much incongruity.

Quran 4:82

وَإِذَا قُرِئَ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ فَٱسْتَمِعُوا۟ لَهُۥ وَأَنصِتُوا۟ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ

And when the Qur'an is recited, give ear to it and pay heed, that ye may obtain mercy.

Quran 7:204

سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ

We shall make thee read (O Muhammad) so that thou shalt not forget

Quran 87:6

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

A1verb

يَقْرَأُ

yaqraʾu

he reads

Example

هُوَ يَقْرَأُ الْجَرِيدَةَ.

huwa yaqraʾu al-jarīdata.

He reads the newspaper.

Root: ق-ر-أ Verbs Basics

Grammar

Form I verb, present tense. The root q-r-ʾ relates to reading. 'Al-Qurʾān' comes from the same root.

B1noun

قُرْآنٌ

qurʾān

Quran / recitation

Example

إِنَّ هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ يَهْدِي لِلَّتِي هِيَ أَقْوَمُ

inna hādhā al-qurʾāna yahdī lillatī hiya aqwam

Indeed, this Quran guides to that which is most suitable (17:9)

Root: ق-ر-أ Quranic

Grammar

Masculine verbal noun (maṣdar) from قَرَأَ (to read/recite). Literally means 'the recitation.' Also called الْكِتَابُ (the Book), الذِّكْرُ (the Reminder), الْفُرْقَانُ (the Criterion).

Culture

The Quran is believed to be the literal, uncreated word of God, preserved in its original Arabic. It was revealed over 23 years and contains 114 surahs and over 6,200 verses.

A1verb

قَرَأَ

qaraʾa