Root

ن-ظ-ر

nẓr·n-z9-r

129 occurrences115 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
نَظَرَnaẓara87—
يُنظَرُyunẓaru12—
يَنتَظِرُyantaẓiru8—
مُنتَظِرmuntaẓir6—
مُنظَرmunẓar6—
ناظِرnāẓir5—
ناظِرَةnāẓirah2—
نَظِرَةnaẓirah1—
نَظْرَةnaẓrah1—
نَظَرnaẓar1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ن-ظ-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 Iفَعَلَ94×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • نَظَرَnaẓara87
    • ناظِرnāẓir5
    • ناظِرَةnāẓirah2
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ18×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُنظَرُyunẓaru12
    • مُنظَرmunẓar6
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ14×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • يَنتَظِرُyantaẓiru8
    • مُنتَظِرmuntaẓir6

Covers 126 of this root’s 129 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-ظ-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ظ-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 100 of 604 pages (17%)

Densest in juzʾ 11 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 33 pages — pages 87–119, juzʾ 5–6.

Occurrences · 129 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-ظ-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ظ-ر (nẓr) occurs 129 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 115 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-ظ-ر occur?

115 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ظ-ر (nẓr), out of 129 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ظ-ر?

ن-ظ-ر (nẓr) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently نَظَرَ (naẓara, 87×), يُنظَرُ (yunẓaru, 12×), يَنتَظِرُ (yantaẓiru, 8×), مُنتَظِر (muntaẓir, 6×), and مُنظَر (munẓar, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.