Root

ك-ث-ر

kthr·k-th-r

167 occurrences162 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَكْثَرakthar80—
كَثِيرkathīr63—
كَثِيرَةkathīrah11—
اسْتَكْثَرْāstakthar3—
كَثُرَkathura2—
كَثْرَةkathrah2—
أَكْثَرُaktharu2—
تَكاثُرtakāthur2—
كَثَّرَkaththara1—
كَوْثَرkawthar1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ك-ث-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 Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • كَثُرَkathura2
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • كَثَّرَkaththara1
  3. Form IIIفَاعَلَ2×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • تَكاثُرtakāthur2
  4. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَكْثَرُaktharu2
  5. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ3×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَكْثَرْāstakthar3

Covers 10 of this root’s 167 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 ك-ث-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ك-ث-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 137 of 604 pages (23%)

Densest in juzʾ 19 (15 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 21 pages — pages 18–38, juzʾ 1–2.

Occurrences · 167 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 ك-ث-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ك-ث-ر (kthr) occurs 167 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 162 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 ك-ث-ر occur?

162 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ك-ث-ر (kthr), out of 167 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ك-ث-ر?

ك-ث-ر (kthr) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَكْثَر (akthar, 80×), كَثِير (kathīr, 63×), كَثِيرَة (kathīrah, 11×), اسْتَكْثَرْ (āstakthar, 3×), and كَثُرَ (kathura, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.