Root

د-ب-ر

dbr·d-b-r

44 occurrences44 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
دُبُرdubur18—
مُدْبِرmudbir8—
يَتَدَبَّرُyatadabbaru4—
دابِرdābir4—
يُدَبِّرُyudabbiru4—
أَدْبَرَadbara4—
إِدْبارidbār1—
مُدَبِّرَةmudabbirah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on د-ب-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 IIفَعَّلَ5×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُدَبِّرُyudabbiru4
    • مُدَبِّرَةmudabbirah1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ13×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُدْبِرmudbir8
    • أَدْبَرَadbara4
    • إِدْبارidbār1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ4×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَدَبَّرُyatadabbaru4

Covers 22 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 د-ب-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where د-ب-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times د-ب-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 37 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 26 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 63 pages — pages 1–63, juzʾ 1–4.

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 د-ب-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root د-ب-ر (dbr) occurs 44 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 44 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 د-ب-ر occur?

44 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from د-ب-ر (dbr), out of 44 total occurrences.

What words come from the root د-ب-ر?

د-ب-ر (dbr) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently دُبُر (dubur, 18×), مُدْبِر (mudbir, 8×), يَتَدَبَّرُ (yatadabbaru, 4×), دابِر (dābir, 4×), and يُدَبِّرُ (yudabbiru, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.