Arabic root

و-ر-ث

Waw-Ra-Tha

3 words from this root family

About this root

Waw-Ra-Tha (و-ر-ث) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: waritha (he inherited), wirātha (genetics / heredity), turāth (heritage / legacy).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 35 times in 34 verses, across 20 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:233. The form وَرِثَ (he inherited) accounts for 13 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Science Medicine, Literature Arts

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
وَرِثَ waritha	he inherited	verb, B1	13×	Covenants, Testing, and Forgiveness
وِرَاثَة wirātha	genetics / heredity	noun, B2		Cells & Biology
تَرَاث turāth	heritage / legacy	noun, B2		Visual Arts & Architecture

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

In the Quran

أَوَلَمْ يَهْدِ لِلَّذِينَ يَرِثُونَ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ أَهْلِهَآ أَن لَّوْ نَشَآءُ أَصَبْنَـٰهُم بِذُنُوبِهِمْ ۚ وَنَطْبَعُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ

Is it not an indication to those who inherit the land after its people (who thus reaped the consequence of evil-doing) that, if We will, We can smite them for their sins and print upon their hearts so that they hear not?

Quran 7:100

قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِ ٱسْتَعِينُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱصْبِرُوٓا۟ ۖ إِنَّ ٱلْأَرْضَ لِلَّهِ يُورِثُهَا مَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦ ۖ وَٱلْعَـٰقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ

And Moses said unto his people: Seek help in Allah and endure. Lo! the earth is Allah's. He giveth it for an inheritance to whom He will. And lo! the sequel is for those who keep their duty (unto Him).

Quran 7:128

وَإِنَّا لَنَحْنُ نُحْىِۦ وَنُمِيتُ وَنَحْنُ ٱلْوَٰرِثُونَ

Lo! and it is We, even We, Who quicken and give death, and We are the Inheritor.

Quran 15:23

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

B1verb

وَرِثَ

waritha

he inherited

Example

وَلِلَّهِ مِيرَاثُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ

wa-lillāhi mīrāthu as-samāwāti wal-arḍ

And to Allah belongs the inheritance of the heavens and the earth (3:180)

Root: و-ر-ث Quranic

Grammar

Form I verb. Nouns: مِيرَاثٌ (inheritance), وَارِثٌ (heir/inheritor - a divine name). Islamic inheritance law derives heavily from Quranic verses.

Culture

God is الوَارِث (the Inheritor) - all things ultimately return to Him. The detailed Quranic inheritance laws (4:11-12) are among the most specific legal rulings.

B2noun

وِرَاثَة

wirātha