Root

غ-ي-ر

ghyr·gh-y-r

154 occurrences146 verses5 forms

Core sense · interpretive

other than, except (ghayr).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
غَيْرghayr147—
يُغَيِّرُyughayyiru4—
مُغَيِّرmughayyir1—
يَتَغَيَّرْyataghayyar1—
مُغِيرَةmughīrah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on غ-ي-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 IIفَعَّلَ5×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُغَيِّرُyughayyiru4
    • مُغَيِّرmughayyir1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُغِيرَةmughīrah1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَغَيَّرْyataghayyar1

Covers 7 of this root’s 154 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 غ-ي-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where غ-ي-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times غ-ي-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 122 of 604 pages (20%)

Densest in juzʾ 8 (15 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 26 pages — pages 538–563, juzʾ 27–29.

Occurrences · 154 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 غ-ي-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root غ-ي-ر (ghyr) occurs 154 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 146 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 غ-ي-ر occur?

146 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from غ-ي-ر (ghyr), out of 154 total occurrences.

What words come from the root غ-ي-ر?

غ-ي-ر (ghyr) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently غَيْر (ghayr, 147×), يُغَيِّرُ (yughayyiru, 4×), مُغَيِّر (mughayyir, 1×), يَتَغَيَّرْ (yataghayyar, 1×), and مُغِيرَة (mughīrah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root غ-ي-ر mean?

The core sense of غ-ي-ر (ghyr) is other than, except (ghayr). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.