Root

ذ-ك-ر

dhkr·dh-k-r

292 occurrences264 verses14 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ذَكَرَdhakara84—
ذِكْرdhikr76—
تَذَكَّرَtadhakkara51—
ذِكْرَىdhikrā23—
ذُكِّرَdhukkira18—
ذَكَرdhakar18—
تَذْكِرَةtadhkirah9—
مُدَّكِرmuddakir6—
ذاكِرdhākir2—
تَذْكِيرtadhkīr1—
ادَّكَرَāddakara1—
ذاكِرَةdhākirah1—
مَذْكُورmadhkūr1—
مُذَكِّرmudhakkir1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ذ-ك-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 Iفَعَلَ164×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ذَكَرَdhakara84
    • ذِكْرdhikr76
    • ذاكِرdhākir2
    • ذاكِرَةdhākirah1
    • مَذْكُورmadhkūr1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ28×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • ذُكِّرَdhukkira18
    • تَذْكِرَةtadhkirah9
    • مُذَكِّرmudhakkir1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ51×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَذَكَّرَtadhakkara51
  4. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ7×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • مُدَّكِرmuddakir6
    • ادَّكَرَāddakara1

Covers 250 of this root’s 292 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 ذ-ك-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ذ-ك-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ذ-ك-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 203 of 604 pages (34%)

Densest in juzʾ 23 (24 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 22 pages — pages 185–206, juzʾ 10–11.

Occurrences · 292 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 ذ-ك-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ذ-ك-ر (dhkr) occurs 292 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 264 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 ذ-ك-ر occur?

264 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ذ-ك-ر (dhkr), out of 292 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ذ-ك-ر?

ذ-ك-ر (dhkr) yields 14 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ذَكَرَ (dhakara, 84×), ذِكْر (dhikr, 76×), تَذَكَّرَ (tadhakkara, 51×), ذِكْرَى (dhikrā, 23×), and ذُكِّرَ (dhukkira, 18×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.