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1651 triliteral roots

Quranic roots الجذور

Almost every word in the Quran grows from a three-letter root. All 1651 of them are below — open one to see the verses it occurs in and the forms it takes.

Most frequent roots

All roots

ا

68 roots

ب

83 roots

ج

69 roots

د

46 roots

ه

39 roots

و

77 roots

ز

39 roots

ح

98 roots

ط

35 roots

ى

11 roots

ك

61 roots

ل

54 roots

م

66 roots

ن

103 roots

س

105 roots

ع

102 roots

ف

72 roots

ص

63 roots

ق

80 roots

ر

87 roots

ش

63 roots

ت

20 roots

ث

21 roots

خ

71 roots

ذ

22 roots

ض

25 roots

ظ

7 roots

غ

50 roots

Other

14 roots

About the root index

Almost every word in the Quran grows from a three-letter root. All 1651 of them are below — open one to see the verses it occurs in and the forms it takes.

Each root page lists the verses it occurs in, the word forms derived from it, and its lemmas. The filter matches the transliteration without diacritics, the slug and the Arabic letters.

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