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Deen · Interactive · الجذور
Most Qur'anic words grow from a root of three letters, poured into a handful of patterns. Learn a root and you can recognise a whole family of words across the muṣḥaf.
The root carries the meaning; the pattern carries the role. Grammarians write patterns with the dummy root ف ع ل (f-ʿ-l, “to do”), so fāʿil means “one who does”. Swap in a real root and the word builds itself. Only real words are filled in; a few, such as maktab and istiʿlām, are everyday Arabic rather than Qur'anic.
Sources
Verse references point to a place each word occurs; most occur many more times. Meanings follow standard Qur'anic dictionaries (al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī's Mufradāt, Lane's Lexicon). Phrase sources: Qur'an where given; the hadith-based phrases are widely reported and only the sources shown were checked.