Arabic root

ص-و-ر

Sad-Waw-Ra

3 words from this root family

About this root

Sad-Waw-Ra (ص-و-ر) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: taṣwīr (photography), ṣūra (picture / photo), ṣawwara (to depict / to portray).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 19 times in 17 verses, across 17 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:260. The form صَوَّرَ (to depict / to portray) accounts for 4 of them.

Themes: Hobbies, Technology Media, Literature Arts

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
تَصْوير taṣwīr	photography	noun, A2		Sports & Exercise
صورة ṣūra	picture / photo	noun, A2		Cooking & Food Hobbies
صَوَّرَ ṣawwara	to depict / to portray	verb, B2	4×	Music & Performance

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

In the Quran

هُوَ ٱلَّذِى يُصَوِّرُكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْحَامِ كَيْفَ يَشَآءُ ۚ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ

He it is Who fashioneth you in the wombs as pleaseth Him. There is no Allah save Him, the Almighty, the Wise.

Quran 3:6

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ بِٱلْحَقِّ ۖ وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ كُن فَيَكُونُ ۚ قَوْلُهُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۚ وَلَهُ ٱلْمُلْكُ يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ ۚ عَـٰلِمُ ٱلْغَيْبِ وَٱلشَّهَـٰدَةِ ۚ وَهُوَ ٱلْحَكِيمُ ٱلْخَبِيرُ

He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in truth. In the day when He saith: Be! it is. His Word is the Truth, and His will be the Sovereignty on the day when the trumpet is blown. Knower of the Invisible and the Visible, He is the Wise, the Aware.

Quran 6:73

هُوَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْخَـٰلِقُ ٱلْبَارِئُ ٱلْمُصَوِّرُ ۖ لَهُ ٱلْأَسْمَآءُ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ ۚ يُسَبِّحُ لَهُۥ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ

He is Allah, the Creator, the Shaper out of naught, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifieth Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.

Quran 59:24

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).