Root

ن-ص-ر

nṣr·n-s9-r

158 occurrences137 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
نَصَرَnaṣara59
نَصِيرnaṣīr35
نَصْرnaṣr22
نَصْرانِيّnaṣrāniyy15
ناصِرnāṣir11
انتَصَرَāntaṣara7
مُنتَصِرmuntaṣir4
اسْتَنصَرَāstanṣara2
مَنصُورmanṣūr2
تَناصَرُtanāṣaru1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ن-ص-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 Iفَعَلَ72×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • نَصَرَnaṣara59
    • ناصِرnāṣir11
    • مَنصُورmanṣūr2
  2. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَناصَرُtanāṣaru1
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ11×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • انتَصَرَāntaṣara7
    • مُنتَصِرmuntaṣir4
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ2×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَنصَرَāstanṣara2

Covers 86 of this root’s 158 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 ن-ص-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ن-ص-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ص-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 123 of 604 pages (20%)

Densest in juzʾ 1 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 38 pages — pages 132169, juzʾ 79.

Occurrences · 158 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 ن-ص-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ص-ر (nṣr) occurs 158 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 137 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 ن-ص-ر occur?

137 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ص-ر (nṣr), out of 158 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ص-ر?

ن-ص-ر (nṣr) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently نَصَرَ (naṣara, 59×), نَصِير (naṣīr, 35×), نَصْر (naṣr, 22×), نَصْرانِيّ (naṣrāniyy, 15×), and ناصِر (nāṣir, 11×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.