Root

ع-ذ-ر

ʿdhr·3-dh-r

12 occurrences11 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَعْتَذِرُyaʿtadhiru5
مَعْذِرَةmaʿdhirah3
عُذْرʿudhr2
مُعَذِّرmuʿadhdhir1
مَعاذِيرmaʿādhīr1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ذ-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 IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُعَذِّرmuʿadhdhir1
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ5×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • يَعْتَذِرُyaʿtadhiru5

Covers 6 of this root’s 12 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 ع-ذ-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-ذ-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ذ-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 11 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 171 pages — pages 1171, juzʾ 19.

Occurrences · 12 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 ع-ذ-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ذ-ر (ʿdhr) occurs 12 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 ع-ذ-ر occur?

11 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ذ-ر (ʿdhr), out of 12 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ذ-ر?

ع-ذ-ر (ʿdhr) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَعْتَذِرُ (yaʿtadhiru, 5×), مَعْذِرَة (maʿdhirah, 3×), عُذْر (ʿudhr, 2×), مُعَذِّر (muʿadhdhir, 1×), and مَعاذِير (maʿādhīr, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.