Root

ي-س-ر

ysr·y-s-r

44 occurrences40 verses9 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَسِيرyasīr15—
يَسَّرَyassara11—
يُسْرyusr7—
مَيْسِرmaysir3—
اسْتَيْسَرَāstaysara2—
تَيَسَّرَtayassara2—
يُسْرَىyusrā2—
مَيْسَرَةmaysarah1—
مَيْسُورmaysūr1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ي-س-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 Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • مَيْسُورmaysūr1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ11×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يَسَّرَyassara11
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ2×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَيَسَّرَtayassara2
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ2×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَيْسَرَāstaysara2

Covers 16 of this root’s 44 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 ي-س-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ي-س-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 33 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 30 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 119 pages — pages 124–242, juzʾ 7–13.

Occurrences · 44 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 ي-س-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ي-س-ر (ysr) occurs 44 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 40 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 ي-س-ر occur?

40 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ي-س-ر (ysr), out of 44 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ي-س-ر?

ي-س-ر (ysr) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَسِير (yasīr, 15×), يَسَّرَ (yassara, 11×), يُسْر (yusr, 7×), مَيْسِر (maysir, 3×), and اسْتَيْسَرَ (āstaysara, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.