Root

ع-ث-ر

ʿthr·3-th-r

2 occurrences2 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عُثِرَʿuthira1
أَعْثَرْaʿthar1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ث-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

    • عُثِرَʿuthira1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَعْثَرْaʿthar1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ع-ث-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ث-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 2 of 604 pages (0%)

Densest in juzʾ 7 (1 occurrence). The longest stretch without it runs 308 pages — pages 297604, juzʾ 1530.

Occurrences · 2 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-ث-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ث-ر (ʿthr) occurs 2 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 2 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-ث-ر occur?

2 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ث-ر (ʿthr), out of 2 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ث-ر?

ع-ث-ر (ʿthr) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عُثِرَ (ʿuthira, 1×) and أَعْثَرْ (aʿthar, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.