Root

ش-ر-ك

shrk·sh-r-k

168 occurrences143 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَشْرَكَashraka71—
مُشْرِكmushrik44—
شَرِيكsharīk40—
مُشْرِكَةmushrikah5—
شِرْكshirk5—
مُشْتَرِكmushtarik2—
شارِكْshārik1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ش-ر-ك

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 IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • شارِكْshārik1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ120×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَشْرَكَashraka71
    • مُشْرِكmushrik44
    • مُشْرِكَةmushrikah5
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ2×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • مُشْتَرِكmushtarik2

Covers 123 of this root’s 168 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 ش-ر-ك more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ش-ر-ك 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 110 of 604 pages (18%)

Densest in juzʾ 7 (18 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 24 pages — pages 574–597, juzʾ 29–30.

Occurrences · 168 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 ش-ر-ك appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ش-ر-ك (shrk) occurs 168 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 143 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 ش-ر-ك occur?

143 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ش-ر-ك (shrk), out of 168 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ش-ر-ك?

ش-ر-ك (shrk) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَشْرَكَ (ashraka, 71×), مُشْرِك (mushrik, 44×), شَرِيك (sharīk, 40×), مُشْرِكَة (mushrikah, 5×), and شِرْك (shirk, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.