Root

ك-ر-ه

krh·k-r-h

41 occurrences35 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
كَرِهَkariha17—
كارِهkārih7—
كَرْهkarh5—
أُكْرِهَukriha5—
كُرْهkurh3—
إِكْراهikrāh2—
مَكْرُوهmakrūh1—
كَرَّهَkarraha1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ك-ر-ه

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 Iفَعَلَ25×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • كَرِهَkariha17
    • كارِهkārih7
    • مَكْرُوهmakrūh1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • كَرَّهَkarraha1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ7×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أُكْرِهَukriha5
    • إِكْراهikrāh2

Covers 33 of this root’s 41 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 ك-ر-ه more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ك-ر-ه falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ك-ر-ه 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 29 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 10 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 113 pages — pages 355–467, juzʾ 18–24.

Occurrences · 41 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 ك-ر-ه appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ك-ر-ه (krh) occurs 41 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 35 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 ك-ر-ه occur?

35 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ك-ر-ه (krh), out of 41 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ك-ر-ه?

ك-ر-ه (krh) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently كَرِهَ (kariha, 17×), كارِه (kārih, 7×), كَرْه (karh, 5×), أُكْرِهَ (ukriha, 5×), and كُرْه (kurh, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.