85% of Qur’anic Words

(Excerpt from Booklet – 85% of Qur’anic Words)

Please keep the following points in mind while studying this booklet.

1. No. of words and their meanings: The words given in this booklet occur 65,912 times (85.1%). The Qur’an has 77,430 words (approx).
2. Most common meanings: For each word, only the most common meanings are given. Some words may have other meanings too, depending upon their context. However, the number of such words is very small.
3. More than one meanings: A comma is placed between the meanings if they are similar, and a semicolon is placed between them if they are different. For example: (above , up عَلَى) and (eye; spring عَيْن).
4. Most commonly occurring words: The words listed in the first six pages occur very frequently. Some of them occur in combination with each other. They constitute a whopping 41.1% (31,852) of the total words.
5. Word count on each page: At the bottom left of the page, total is provided for the number of times the words of that page occur in the Qur’an. The bottom right shows the…
6. Nouns and verbs: The number next to the noun (pages 7–14) or the verb (pages 15–33) shows the number of times it occurs in its various forms in the Qur’an.
7. Arrangement of word lists: Words given on pages 1 through 14 are arranged according to the topic. However, some of these words could not be placed under any of the topics and therefore are placed at the end of any of the word lists wherever space was available.
8. Arrangement of verbs: Verbs given on pages 22 through 33 are arranged according to their types to facilitate the learning.
9. Vowel sign on the last letter: If the last letter of a word does not have a vowel sign ( ـٌ ـٍ ـً ـِ ـَ ـُ ) it indicates that it is a noun and therefore any vowel sign can come on it depending upon the context in which it is used. If ُ occurs before the noun, then Tanween ( ـٌ ـٍ ـً ـِ ـَ ـُ ) is not used.
10. Arrangement of words: In almost every case, the words are arranged alphabetically to make the search easy.
11. Brief conjugation of verbs: For each verb, the past tense, the imperfect tense, the imperative, the active participle, the passive participle and the verbal noun are provided. It is assumed that based on this information, you can reproduce the whole verb table. Sample tables are provided at the end of this booklet.
12. Active and passive: Verbs are given in معروف forms (active voice). For each type, a sample مجهول form (passive voice) is given in the last.
13. Dual and Feminine forms: The word forms related to dual number and feminine gender are used sparingly in the Qur’an. In normal cases, singular nouns are made dual by adding ان or ين at the end.
14. Detailed conjugation of verbs: A star (*) is placed next to selected verbs. Different forms (conjugation) of such verbs are provided in detail in a separate book, “Selected Verbs of the Qur’an.” We strongly recommend you to have another book “All Verbs of the Qur’an” too for complete the set on verbs.
15. Silat-ul-fa’l (صلات الفعل): Just like in any language, some verbs and nouns of action are followed by a preposition. For example, believe in: آمَنَ ب. A change in the preposition may change the meanings too. For example, get; get in; get at; get by, get off, get on, etc. Selected verbs along with changing prepositions are given on page no. 34.
16. References: The first version of the book was prepared using different sources. Most important one among these is the book قائمة معجمية لألفاظ القرآن الكريم ودرجات تكرارها prepared originally at the Arabic Language institute of King Saud University by Dr. Muhammad Hussain Abulfatooh and published by Maktaba Lebanon, Lebanon (1990).