Root

ب-ر-أ

br·b-r-2

31 occurrences28 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
بَرِيءbarī12—
تَبَرَّأَtabarraʾa5—
بارِئbāri3—
تُبْرِئُtubriʾu2—
بَراءَةbarāʾah2—
بَرَّأَbarraʾa2—
بَرِيَّةbariyyah2—
مُبَرَّءmubarra1—
بَراءbarā1—
نَبْرَأَnabraʾa1—

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

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 Iفَعَلَ4×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • بارِئbāri3
    • نَبْرَأَnabraʾa1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ3×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • بَرَّأَbarraʾa2
    • مُبَرَّءmubarra1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • تُبْرِئُtubriʾu2
  4. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ5×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَبَرَّأَtabarraʾa5

Covers 14 of this root’s 31 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 ب-ر-أ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-ر-أ 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 25 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 109 pages — pages 243–351, juzʾ 13–18.

Occurrences · 31 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 ب-ر-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-ر-أ (br) occurs 31 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 28 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 ب-ر-أ occur?

28 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-ر-أ (br), out of 31 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-ر-أ?

ب-ر-أ (br) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently بَرِيء (barī, 12×), تَبَرَّأَ (tabarraʾa, 5×), بارِئ (bāri, 3×), تُبْرِئُ (tubriʾu, 2×), and بَراءَة (barāʾah, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.