Search Quranic Arabic words by their English meaning, their sound, or the Arabic itself. Each word shows its root and type, so you start to see how words connect.
A gentle guide to the labels you see above, so they make sense.
A naming word: a person, a place or a thing. It does not, by itself, tell you when something happened.
A doing word, an action tied to time, telling you something happened, is happening, or will happen.
A small joining word with little meaning on its own. It links other words together, like in, from, on and to.
In Arabic, words are masculine or feminine. A round letter called ta marbuta, ة, at the end of a word usually marks it as feminine.
Most Arabic words grow from a root of three letters, like a seed. Many different words can grow from the same root, all sharing one core meaning.
When reciting the Quran, tiny letters above the line, called waqf marks, show where it is best to stop, where to carry on, and where you may choose. They help you breathe and keep the meaning clear.
Tiny marks above or below a letter that give it its sound. Each has its own colour here so you can spot it: zabar in red, zer in blue, pesh in green. They sit on the letter ب (b).