Root

أ-ث-ر

thr·2-th-r

21 occurrences21 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَثَرathar14—
آثَرَāthara5—
أَثارَةathārah1—
يُؤْثَرُyuʾtharu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on أ-ث-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 Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • أَثارَةathārah1
    • يُؤْثَرُyuʾtharu1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ5×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • آثَرَāthara5

Covers 7 of this root’s 21 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-ث-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-ث-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 21 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 129 pages — pages 117–245, juzʾ 6–13.

Occurrences · 21 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-ث-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-ث-ر (thr) occurs 21 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 21 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-ث-ر occur?

21 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-ث-ر (thr), out of 21 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-ث-ر?

أ-ث-ر (thr) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَثَر (athar, 14×), آثَرَ (āthara, 5×), أَثارَة (athārah, 1×), and يُؤْثَرُ (yuʾtharu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.