Arabic root

ر-ا-ي

Ra-Alif-Ya

3 words from this root family

About this root

Ra-Alif-Ya (ر-ا-ي) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: yarā (he sees), raʾā (to see), riʾa (lung).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 328 times in 297 verses, across 72 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:55. The form رَأَى (to see) accounts for 271 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Basics, Senses, Health, Body

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
يَرَى yarā	he sees	verb, A1		Essential Verbs
رَأَى raʾā	to see	verb, A1	271×	Action Verbs - Thinking & Feeling
رِئة riʾa	lung	noun, A2		Staying Healthy

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

In the Quran

وَإِذْ قُلْتُمْ يَـٰمُوسَىٰ لَن نُّؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّىٰ نَرَى ٱللَّهَ جَهْرَةً فَأَخَذَتْكُمُ ٱلصَّـٰعِقَةُ وَأَنتُمْ تَنظُرُونَ

And when ye said: O Moses! We will not believe in thee till we see Allah plainly; and even while ye gazed the lightning seized you.

Quran 2:55

فَقُلْنَا ٱضْرِبُوهُ بِبَعْضِهَا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُحْىِ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ وَيُرِيكُمْ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ

And We said: Smite him with some of it. Thus Allah bringeth the dead to life and showeth you His portents so that ye may understand.

Quran 2:73

وَٱلَّذِينَ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَٰلَهُمْ رِئَآءَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ وَلَا بِٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ ۗ وَمَن يَكُنِ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ لَهُۥ قَرِينًا فَسَآءَ قَرِينًا

And (also) those who spend their wealth in order to be seen of men, and believe not in Allah nor the Last Day. Whoso taketh Satan for a comrade, a bad comrade hath he.

Quran 4:38

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).