Quranic Roots: Arabic Morphology

Sawsan Mostafa Nashaat

Course Overview

The study of words, their different forms, and how they come together in a language to create meaning is called morphology. As part of Kiflayn’s ongoing curriculum to discover the meaning of the Quran, we are now offering a course that explores Arabic Quranic roots.

This course runs for six weeks, during which students will be introduced to the most common Arabic roots that appear throughout the Quran. In each lesson, the teacher will introduce five Arabic root words, explain their core meaning and derivation, examples of how they appear in the Quran, and their different contexts.

Ustadha Sawsan will highlight fundamental ideas repeated in the Quran through different noun and verb forms. These concepts are presented in a unique diagram mapping out examples of the morphology of Quranic roots so that students may use the notes as a reference for their future studies.

At a Glance:

• Learn the most common roots of the Quran and their many distributions to better your understanding of Allah’s words
• 6 weekly recorded lessons with AYOA mind-mapping for quality presentation
• No live lessons – Telegram Channel for participants to interact with their teacher
• 30 roots over 6 weeks that branch out into 16,981 derived words

Course outline:

Week 1:

– ء ل ه  (A-L-H) Examples:  Allah, Ilah – 2851 derived words in the Quran  

– ق و ل (Q-W-L) Examples: Qala, Qawl – 1722 derived words in the Quran

– ك و ن (K-W-N) Examples: Kana, Makan – 1390 derived words in the Quran

– ر ب ب (R – B – B) Examples: Rabb, Raba’eb – 980 derived words in the Quran

– ء م ن (A – M – N) Examples: Aaman, Aamin – 879 derived words in the Quran

Week 2:

– ع لِ م (A – L – M) Examples: Aalim, Elm – 854 derived words in the Quran

– ق و م (Q – W – M) Examples: Qawm, Qiyamah – 660 derived words in the Quran

– أ ت ي (A – T – Ya) Examples: Atya, Aata – 549 derived words in the Quran

– ك ف ر (K – F – R) Examples: Kafar, Kafiroon – 525 derived words in the Quran

– ب ي ن (B – Ya – N) Examples: Bayn, Mubeen – 523 derived words in the Quran

Week 3

– ش ى ء (Sh – Ya – Aa) Examples: Shay’, Sha’a – 519 derived words in the Quran

– ر س ل (R – S – L) Examples: Rasul, Arsal – 513 derived words in the Quran

–  أ رض (A – R D) Examples: Ard – 461 derived words in the Quran

– أ ي ي (A – Ya – Ya) Examples: Ayah – 382 derived words in the Quran

–  ع ذ ب (A – Z – B) Examples: Azab, Azaab – 373 derived words in the Quran

Week 4

– ع م ل (A – M – L) Examples: Amil , Ama – 360 derived words in the Quran

– ج ع ل (J – A – L) Examples: Ja’al, Ja’il – 346 derived words in the Quran

– رح م (R – H – M) Examples: Rahim, Rahman – 339 derived words in the Quran

– رأ ى (R – A – Ya) Examples: Ra’a, ‘Aara – 328 derived words in the Quran

– ك ت ب (K – T – B) Examples: Katab, Kitab – 319 derived words in the Quran

Week 5

– ه د ي (H – D – Ya) Examples: Hada, Muhtadun – 316 derived words in the Quran

– ظ ل م (Dh – L – M) Examples: Dhalam, Dhalim – 315 derived words in the Quran

– س م و (S – M – W) Examples: Sama’  – 310 derived words in the Quran

– ن ف س (N – F – S) Examples: Nafs, Tanafas – 298 derived words in the Quran

– ق ب ل (Q – B – L) Examples: Qabl, Taqabal – 294 derived words in the Quran

Week 6

– ن زل (N – Z – L) Examples: Nazal, Tanzeel – 293 derived words in the Quran

– ذ ك ر (Z- K – R) Examples: Zikr, Zikra – 292 derived words in the Quran

– ح ق ق (H – Q – Q) Examples: Haq, Ahaq – 287 derived words in the Quran

– ك ذ ب (K – Z – B) Examples: Kazab, Kazib – 282 derived words in the Quran

– ع ب د (A – B – D) Examples: Abd, Aabid – 275 derived words in the Quran