Root

أ-م-ر

mr·2-m-r

248 occurrences226 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَمْرamr166
أَمَرَamara77
يَأْتَمِرُyaʾtamiru2
آمِرāmir1
أَمّارَةammārah1
إِمْرimr1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on أ-م-ر

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ78×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • أَمَرَamara77
    • آمِرāmir1
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ2×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • يَأْتَمِرُyaʾtamiru2

Covers 80 of this root’s 248 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with أ-م-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-م-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-م-ر occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 176 of 604 pages (29%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (22 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 22 pages — pages 561582, juzʾ 2830.

Occurrences · 248 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root أ-م-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-م-ر (mr) occurs 248 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 226 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does أ-م-ر occur?

226 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-م-ر (mr), out of 248 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-م-ر?

أ-م-ر (mr) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَمْر (amr, 166×), أَمَرَ (amara, 77×), يَأْتَمِرُ (yaʾtamiru, 2×), آمِر (āmir, 1×), and أَمّارَة (ammārah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.