Root

ش-ع-ر

shʿr·sh-3-r

40 occurrences40 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَشْعُرُyashʿuru25—
شاعِرshāʿir5—
شَعائِرshaʿāʾir4—
يُشْعِرُyushʿiru2—
شِعْرshiʿr2—
مَشْعَرmashʿar1—
شِعْرَىshiʿrā1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ش-ع-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 Iفَعَلَ25×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَشْعُرُyashʿuru25
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُشْعِرُyushʿiru2

Covers 27 of this root’s 40 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 ش-ع-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ش-ع-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ش-ع-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 35 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 19 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 74 pages — pages 163–236, juzʾ 9–12.

Occurrences · 40 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 ش-ع-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ش-ع-ر (shʿr) occurs 40 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 40 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 ش-ع-ر occur?

40 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ش-ع-ر (shʿr), out of 40 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ش-ع-ر?

ش-ع-ر (shʿr) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَشْعُرُ (yashʿuru, 25×), شاعِر (shāʿir, 5×), شَعائِر (shaʿāʾir, 4×), يُشْعِرُ (yushʿiru, 2×), and شِعْر (shiʿr, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.