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Quran Dictionary
Look up Quranic words — their root letters, root meanings, and every ayath where they appear.
1,671 words
حلم
ḥ-l-m
The root حلم (Hlm) primarily means "to dream" or "to see a vision in sleep." It also signifies reaching puberty or virility.
Root: ح-ل-م10 occurrences
حلق
ḥ-l-q
The root حلق (Hlq) primarily means "to shave," especially hair from the head. It can also mean to peel or strip something, or metaphorically, to destroy.
Root: ح-ل-ق3 occurrences
حلي
ḥ-l-y
The root حلي (Hly) primarily refers to being sweet or becoming sweet, often in taste. It also encompasses the idea of being lawful or permissible, especially in religious contexts.
Root: ح-ل-ي9 occurrences
حمل
ḥ-m-l
The root "Hml" primarily means to bear, carry, or convey. It extends to a woman becoming pregnant, a tree bearing fruit, or taking on responsibility for a debt.
Root: ح-م-ل10 occurrences
حمم
ḥ-m-m
The root حمم (Hmm) primarily refers to blackness or being intensely black. It can also denote destiny, fate, or a decreed matter, often with an implication of something inevitable or predetermined.
Root: ح-م-م10 occurrences
حمر
ḥ-m-r
The root حمر (Hmr) primarily denotes the color red, but its meaning extends significantly.
Root: ح-م-ر6 occurrences
حمي
ḥ-m-y
The root حمي (Hmy) primarily means to protect, guard, or defend something or someone from harm or danger.
Root: ح-م-ي5 occurrences
حمأ
ḥ-m-ā
The root HMA relates to black, fetid mud. It describes cleaning a well of this mud, or water/wells becoming turbid and foul-smelling due to it. It can also mean to be angry with someone.
Root: ح-م-أ4 occurrences
حنذ
ḥ-n-d-h
The root HNDH primarily means to roast meat, often with heated stones or by burying it in fire, ensuring thorough cooking.
Root: ح-ن-ذ1 occurrences
حنف
ḥ-n-f
Hnf describes someone who inclines to a right state, especially from false religion to true religion.
Root: ح-ن-ف10 occurrences
حنجر
ḥ-n-j-r
The root حنجر (Hnjr) is mentioned in dictionaries like the K as a quadriliteral root.
Root: ح-ن-ج-ر2 occurrences
حنك
ḥ-n-k
The root حنك (Hnk) primarily refers to rubbing a child's palate with chewed dates. It also describes putting a rope in a horse's mouth.
Root: ح-ن-ك1 occurrences
حنن
ḥ-n-n
The root حنن (Hnn) primarily conveys the idea of tenderness, compassion, and yearning.
Root: ح-ن-ن1 occurrences
حنث
ḥ-n-t-h
The root "Hnth" primarily means to put away sin or crime, or to do works to escape it. It can also mean to apply oneself to devotion, abstain from sin, or relinquish idols.
Root: ح-ن-ث2 occurrences
حقب
ḥ-q-b
The root Hqb primarily refers to something carried behind, like a saddlebag for provisions. It can also metaphorically describe a burden one carries or lays up for the future.
Root: ح-ق-ب2 occurrences
حقف
ḥ-q-f
The root حقف (Hqf) refers to a curving or winding tract of sand, often forming a hill or heap. It can also denote a great, round, or oblong and elevated sandy area.
Root: ح-ق-ف1 occurrences
حقق
ḥ-q-q
The root HQQ primarily signifies truth, reality, and certainty. It denotes that which is established as true, right, or due.
Root: ح-ق-ق10 occurrences
حرب
ḥ-r-b
The root حرب (Hrb) primarily means "war" or "battle." It is usually feminine, but can be masculine. It can also describe a "warrior" or someone "vehement in war.
Root: ح-ر-ب10 occurrences
حرد
ḥ-r-d
The root حرد (Hrd) primarily means to direct oneself towards something, to prevent or hinder, or to separate oneself from others. It also describes being angry or a camel's leg ailment.
Root: ح-ر-د1 occurrences
حرف
ḥ-r-f
حَرْفٌ حرف حرفة The extremity, verge, border, margin, brink, brow, side, or edge, of anything
Root: ح-ر-ف6 occurrences
حرج
ḥ-r-j
The root حرج (Hrj) conveys the idea of narrowness, tightness, or confinement. It can describe a physical space, a feeling of distress or doubt in one's heart, or being in a difficult situation.
Root: ح-ر-ج10 occurrences
حرك
ḥ-r-k
The root حرك primarily means "to move" or "to be in motion," the opposite of stillness. It can also describe hitting or hurting someone's shoulder/neck, or, less commonly, being incapable of coition.
Root: ح-ر-ك1 occurrences
حرم
ḥ-r-m
The root حُرْمَةٌ (ḥurmah) signifies something forbidden, sacred, or inviolable. It also denotes reverence, respect, and honor due to a person or thing.
Root: ح-ر-م10 occurrences
حرق
ḥ-r-q
The root حرق (Hrq) primarily means to burn, often implying destruction or damage by fire. It also describes the act of grinding or grating, like teeth in anger or filing.
Root: ح-ر-ق9 occurrences
حرر
ḥ-r-r
The root حرر (Hrr) primarily signifies setting free, emancipating, or liberating someone or something from bondage, slavery, or restriction.
Root: ح-ر-ر10 occurrences
حرس
ḥ-r-s
The root حرس (H-R-S) primarily means to guard, keep, or preserve. It can also be used to mean to steal, especially animals like sheep or camels, often by night or from pasturage.
Root: ح-ر-س1 occurrences
حرث
ḥ-r-t-h
The root "Hrth" primarily means to gain or acquire wealth, often through diligent labor. It also refers to tilling land for sowing, and metaphorically, to working for one's afterlife.
Root: ح-ر-ث10 occurrences
حري
ḥ-r-y
The root حري primarily signifies being worthy or deserving of something, often implying a strong likelihood or fitness for it.
Root: ح-ر-ي1 occurrences
حرض
ḥ-r-ḍ
The root حرض (HrD) describes corruption or decay, whether in the body, mind, or conduct. It refers to someone sick, at the point of death, or emaciated by grief.
Root: ح-ر-ض3 occurrences
حرص
ḥ-r-ṣ
The root حرص (HrS) primarily means to tear, cleave, or strip off a surface. It also signifies an intense, often greedy or culpable, desire for something, or striving diligently to attain it.
Root: ح-ر-ص5 occurrences
حسب
ḥ-s-b
The root HSB primarily means to number, count, or calculate. It also conveys the sense of thinking or supposing something to be true.
Root: ح-س-ب10 occurrences
حسد
ḥ-s-d
The root HSD primarily means to envy someone for a blessing, wishing it would depart from them.
Root: ح-س-د4 occurrences
حشر
ḥ-s-h-r
The root حشر (Hshr) primarily means to gather or collect people, often implying driving them together or compelling them to emigrate.
Root: ح-ش-ر10 occurrences
حسم
ḥ-s-m
The root حسم (Hsm) primarily means "to cut off entirely" or "to stop." It's used for cutting and cauterizing a vein to stop bleeding, or stopping a disease with a remedy.
Root: ح-س-م1 occurrences
حسن
ḥ-s-n
The root HSN generally means "good," "beautiful," or "pleasing." It describes something intrinsically good, like faith, or extrinsically good, like fighting for a cause.
Root: ح-س-ن10 occurrences
حسر
ḥ-s-r
The root HSR primarily means to remove or uncover something. It also describes becoming tired or fatigued, whether a beast from travel or the eye from prolonged looking.
Root: ح-س-ر10 occurrences
حسس
ḥ-s-s
The root HSS primarily conveys the idea of perceiving or sensing something, often subtly. It can refer to feeling with the senses, hearing a sound, or having a premonition.
Root: ح-س-س6 occurrences
حثث
ḥ-t-h-t-h
The root حثث (Hthth) primarily means to urge, incite, or encourage someone to do something. It implies a strong and often repeated prompting or instigation, pushing one towards an action or goal.
Root: ح-ث-ث1 occurrences
حتم
ḥ-t-m
The root حتم (Htm) primarily means to make something necessary or unavoidable. It can also describe something soft, yielding, or easily broken, like food or a dry wart.
Root: ح-ت-م1 occurrences
حوب
ḥ-w-b
The root حوب (Hwb) primarily denotes sin or wrongdoing.
Root: ح-و-ب1 occurrences
حوذ
ḥ-w-d-h
The root حوذ (Hwdh) primarily means to drive camels, often quickly or forcefully, and by extension, to collect or master something.
Root: ح-و-ذ2 occurrences
حوج
ḥ-w-j
The root حوج (Hwj) primarily signifies "want," "need," or "necessity." It also refers to "a thing wanted" or "an object of need.
Root: ح-و-ج3 occurrences
حول
ḥ-w-l
The root "Hwl" primarily signifies change, alteration, or transformation from one state to another. It can describe things shifting, moving, or becoming crooked.
Root: ح-و-ل10 occurrences
حور
ḥ-w-r
The root Hwr relates to returning or circling. A "mahārah" can be a mother-of-pearl shell, a place where water collects, or a cavity in the body like the ear or hip.
Root: ح-و-ر10 occurrences
حوش
ḥ-w-s-h
The root حوش (Hwsh) primarily describes something wild, untamed, or unfamiliar, like a wild animal or an unsociable person.
Root: ح-و-ش2 occurrences
حوت
ḥ-w-t
The root Hwt relates to striving or enticing someone to turn from something, often with guile, like a fish in water.
Root: ح-و-ت5 occurrences
حوي
ḥ-w-y
The root حوي (Hwy) primarily refers to collecting or gathering things, often by surrounding or encompassing them.
Root: ح-و-ي2 occurrences
حوز
ḥ-w-z
The root Hwz primarily means to gather, collect, or possess something, like wealth or land.
Root: ح-و-ز1 occurrences
حوط
ḥ-w-ṭ
The root HwT primarily means to guard, protect, or take care of someone or something, often with diligent attention. It can also imply surrounding or encompassing.
Root: ح-و-ط10 occurrences
حيد
ḥ-y-d
The root حيد (Hyd) refers to a prominent, protuberant, or projecting part of something. It can describe a knot in wood, a curved bone, a knot in a horn, or a projecting ledge of a mountain.
Root: ح-ي-د1 occurrences
حيف
ḥ-y-f
The root حيف (Hyf) signifies acting wrongfully, unjustly, or tyrannically, especially in judgment. It implies inclining to wrong or deviating from right.
Root: ح-ي-ف1 occurrences
حين
ḥ-y-n
The root "Hyn" refers to a period of time, often vague, but can be specific like 40 years or a glance. It can mean an appointed term, a year, or the time of an event.
Root: ح-ي-ن10 occurrences
حيق
ḥ-y-q
The root حيق (Hyq) primarily means to surround or encompass, specifically in relation to evil or punishment.
Root: ح-ي-ق10 occurrences
حير
ḥ-y-r
The root حير (Hyr) primarily means to be dazzled or confounded, unable to see clearly or find one's way. It can also describe water collecting and moving aimlessly, as if perplexed.
Root: ح-ي-ر1 occurrences
حيث
ḥ-y-t-h
حَيْثُ (haythu) is an indeclinable adverb of place, meaning "where." It typically precedes a proposition (a phrase with a verb or noun). While primarily denoting place, it can sometimes signify "when.
Root: ح-ي-ث10 occurrences
حيي
ḥ-y-y
The root حيي primarily signifies life, living, and being alive.
Root: ح-ي-ي10 occurrences
حيض
ḥ-y-ḍ
The root HyD primarily describes a woman's menstruation, the flow of blood from her womb.
Root: ح-ي-ض2 occurrences
حيص
ḥ-y-ṣ
The root "HyS" is primarily found in the idiom "ḥayṣa bayṣa," meaning to fall into confusion, straitness, or difficulty from which there is no escape.
Root: ح-ي-ص5 occurrences
حزب
ḥ-z-b
A "hizb" is a group of people united by a common purpose or event, like a party, faction, or companions. It also refers to a set portion of the Quran or prayer one recites regularly.
Root: ح-ز-ب10 occurrences
حظر
ḥ-z-h-r
The root حظر (Hzhr) primarily means to forbid or prohibit something. It also conveys the sense of debarring or withholding something from others, as if taking it for oneself.
Root: ح-ظ-ر2 occurrences