Root

س-ي-ر

syr·s-y-r

27 occurrences25 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سارَsāra16—
سُيِّرَتْsuyyirat5—
سَيّارَةsayyārah3—
سَيْرsayr2—
سِيرَتsīrat1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-ي-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 Iفَعَلَ16×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • سارَsāra16
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ5×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • سُيِّرَتْsuyyirat5

Covers 21 of this root’s 27 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 س-ي-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where س-ي-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ي-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 25 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 20 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 81 pages — pages 130–210, juzʾ 7–11.

Occurrences · 27 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 س-ي-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ي-ر (syr) occurs 27 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 25 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 س-ي-ر occur?

25 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ي-ر (syr), out of 27 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ي-ر?

س-ي-ر (syr) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سارَ (sāra, 16×), سُيِّرَتْ (suyyirat, 5×), سَيّارَة (sayyārah, 3×), سَيْر (sayr, 2×), and سِيرَت (sīrat, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.