Root

ق-ص-ر

qṣr·q-s9-r

11 occurrences11 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قَصْرqaṣr4
قاصِرَةqāṣirah3
تَقْصُرُtaqṣuru1
يُقْصِرُyuqṣiru1
مُقَصِّرmuqaṣṣir1
مَقْصُورَةmaqṣūrah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-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 Iفَعَلَ4×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • قاصِرَةqāṣirah3
    • تَقْصُرُtaqṣuru1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُقَصِّرmuqaṣṣir1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُقْصِرُyuqṣiru1

Covers 6 of this root’s 11 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 ق-ص-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-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 11 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 23 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 160 pages — pages 177336, juzʾ 917.

Occurrences · 11 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 ق-ص-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-ص-ر (qṣr) occurs 11 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 11 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 ق-ص-ر occur?

11 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-ص-ر (qṣr), out of 11 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-ص-ر?

ق-ص-ر (qṣr) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قَصْر (qaṣr, 4×), قاصِرَة (qāṣirah, 3×), تَقْصُرُ (taqṣuru, 1×), يُقْصِرُ (yuqṣiru, 1×), and مُقَصِّر (muqaṣṣir, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.