Root

ع-س-ر

ʿsr·3-s-r

12 occurrences12 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عُسْرʿusr5—
عُسْرَةʿusrah2—
عَسِيرʿasīr2—
عَسِرʿasir1—
تَعاسَرْtaʿāsar1—
عُسْرَىʿusrā1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-س-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 10 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 30 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 166 pages — pages 363–528, juzʾ 19–27.

Occurrences · 12 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-س-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-س-ر (ʿsr) occurs 12 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 12 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-س-ر occur?

12 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-س-ر (ʿsr), out of 12 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-س-ر?

ع-س-ر (ʿsr) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عُسْر (ʿusr, 5×), عُسْرَة (ʿusrah, 2×), عَسِير (ʿasīr, 2×), عَسِر (ʿasir, 1×), and تَعاسَرْ (taʿāsar, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.