Root

ع-ر-ض

ʿrḍ·3-r-d9

79 occurrences72 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَعْرَضَaʿraḍa32
مُعْرِضmuʿriḍ19
عَرَضَʿaraḍa11
عَرَضʿaraḍ6
عَرْضʿarḍ4
إِعْراضiʿrāḍ2
عارِضʿāriḍ2
عُرْضَةʿurḍah1
عَرَّضْʿarraḍ1
عَرِيضʿarīḍ1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ر-ض

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 Iفَعَلَ13×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • عَرَضَʿaraḍa11
    • عارِضʿāriḍ2
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • عَرَّضْʿarraḍ1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ53×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَعْرَضَaʿraḍa32
    • مُعْرِضmuʿriḍ19
    • إِعْراضiʿrāḍ2

Covers 67 of this root’s 79 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 ع-ر-ض more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-ر-ض falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ر-ض 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 70 of 604 pages (12%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 30 pages — pages 142171, juzʾ 89.

Occurrences · 79 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 ع-ر-ض appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ر-ض (ʿrḍ) occurs 79 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 72 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 ع-ر-ض occur?

72 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ر-ض (ʿrḍ), out of 79 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ر-ض?

ع-ر-ض (ʿrḍ) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَعْرَضَ (aʿraḍa, 32×), مُعْرِض (muʿriḍ, 19×), عَرَضَ (ʿaraḍa, 11×), عَرَض (ʿaraḍ, 6×), and عَرْض (ʿarḍ, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.