Root

ع-م-ر

ʿmr·3-m-r

24 occurrences19 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عُمُرʿumur7—
يُعَمَّرُyuʿammaru5—
عَمَرُʿamaru4—
عُمْرَةʿumrah2—
اعْتَمَرَāʿtamara1—
عِمارَةʿimārah1—
اسْتَعْمَرَāstaʿmara1—
عَمْرʿamr1—
مُعَمَّرmuʿammar1—
مَعْمُورmaʿmūr1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-م-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 Iفَعَلَ5×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • عَمَرُʿamaru4
    • مَعْمُورmaʿmūr1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ6×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُعَمَّرُyuʿammaru5
    • مُعَمَّرmuʿammar1
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اعْتَمَرَāʿtamara1
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَعْمَرَāstaʿmara1

Covers 13 of this root’s 24 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-م-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-م-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 17 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 22 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 158 pages — pages 31–188, juzʾ 2–10.

Occurrences · 24 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-م-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-م-ر (ʿmr) occurs 24 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 19 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-م-ر occur?

19 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-م-ر (ʿmr), out of 24 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-م-ر?

ع-م-ر (ʿmr) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عُمُر (ʿumur, 7×), يُعَمَّرُ (yuʿammaru, 5×), عَمَرُ (ʿamaru, 4×), عُمْرَة (ʿumrah, 2×), and اعْتَمَرَ (āʿtamara, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.