Root

ن-ك-ر

nkr·n-k-r

37 occurrences37 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مُنكَرmunkar18—
نَكِيرnakīr5—
مُنكِرmunkir3—
يُنكِرُyunkiru3—
نُكْرnukr3—
نَكِرَnakira1—
مُنكِرَةmunkirah1—
نَكِّرُnakkiru1—
أَنكَرankar1—
نُكُرnukur1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ن-ك-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

    • نَكِرَnakira1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • نَكِّرُnakkiru1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ25×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُنكَرmunkar18
    • مُنكِرmunkir3
    • يُنكِرُyunkiru3
    • مُنكِرَةmunkirah1

Covers 27 of this root’s 37 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 ن-ك-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ك-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 34 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 14 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 62 pages — pages 1–62, juzʾ 1–4.

Occurrences · 37 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 ن-ك-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ك-ر (nkr) occurs 37 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 37 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 ن-ك-ر occur?

37 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ك-ر (nkr), out of 37 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ك-ر?

ن-ك-ر (nkr) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مُنكَر (munkar, 18×), نَكِير (nakīr, 5×), مُنكِر (munkir, 3×), يُنكِرُ (yunkiru, 3×), and نُكْر (nukr, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.