Arabic root

ش-و-ر

Shin-Waw-Ra

2 words from this root family

About this root

Shin-Waw-Ra (ش-و-ر) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: shūrā (consultation / mutual counsel), ishārat murūr (traffic light).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:233. The form شُورَى (consultation / mutual counsel) accounts for 1 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Travel, Transportation

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
شُورَى shūrā	consultation / mutual counsel	noun, B2	1×	Advanced Quranic & Islamic Terminology
إشارة مُرور ishārat murūr	traffic light	noun, A2		City Transportation

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

In the Quran

فَأَشَارَتْ إِلَيْهِ ۖ قَالُوا۟ كَيْفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَن كَانَ فِى ٱلْمَهْدِ صَبِيًّا

Then she pointed to him. They said: How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy?

Quran 19:29

وَٱلَّذِينَ ٱسْتَجَابُوا۟ لِرَبِّهِمْ وَأَقَامُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَأَمْرُهُمْ شُورَىٰ بَيْنَهُمْ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَـٰهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ

And those who answer the call of their Lord and establish worship, and whose affairs are a matter of counsel, and who spend of what We have bestowed on them,

Quran 42:38

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).

Word cards with examples

B2noun

شُورَى

shūrā

consultation / mutual counsel

Example

وَأَمْرُهُمْ شُورَى بَيْنَهُمْ

wa-amruhum shūrā baynahum

And their affair is determined by consultation among themselves (42:38)

Root: ش-و-ر Quranic

Grammar

Feminine noun (fuʿlā pattern, used as maṣdar). Verb: شَاوَرَ (Form III, to consult). Surah ash-Shūrā (42) is named after this concept.

Culture

Shūrā is the Quranic principle of governance through consultation - it is a defining characteristic of the believing community and the basis for Islamic democratic theory.

A2noun

إشارة مُرور

ishārat murūr