Quranic root
قرر
q · r · r
The root expresses two closely attested orientations: coldness and becoming still, and settling or becoming firmly established.
From coldness comes the notion of cooling and quieting; from settledness develop meanings of remaining, fixed abode, establishment, acknowledgment as making something firm, and related receptacle and resting-place usages. The sources also preserve independent sound-symbolic and specialized branches.
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
قَرَّ
qarra
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 5 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To settle, remain, stay, or become still and at rest.
The Quranic group includes ordinary imperfect forms as well as contracted imperative forms; the context may describe remaining in a place or state of settled quiet.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 33:33word 1
“And stay”
Of the eye, to become cool, refreshed, and comforted through joy or contentment.
Used in the construction قَرَّتْ عَيْنُهُ and related expressions; the cooling of the eye is associated with relief, happiness, or the cessation of distress.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:13word 5
“might be comforted”
Quran 19:26word 3
“and cool”
أَقَرَّ
ʾaqarra
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 4 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To acknowledge, affirm, confess, or recognize something as true or binding.
Acknowledgment may be expressed by the tongue, by the mind, or by both; the Quranic uses concern ratifying or affirming an obligation or truth.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:84word 13
“you ratified”
Quran 3:81word 21
“Do you affirm”
To establish, fix, retain, or cause something to remain in a place or state.
The Quranic construction includes causing what is carried to remain in the womb until an appointed term; the broader sense is establishment or continued placement.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:5word 27
“And We cause to remain”
اِسْتَقَرَّ
āistaqarra
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form X
- Form
- X
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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To settle, become established, or remain in a fixed state.
The Quranic use describes something continuing or remaining established rather than merely coming to rest momentarily.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:143word 20
“it remains”
مُسْتَقَرّ
mustaqarr
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 10 occurrences
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A place, state, or time at which something settles or remains; a fixed abode, resting place, or appointed term.
The Quranic contexts alternate between a physical place of residence or rest and a temporal limit or appointed term; the form is used substantivally as a passive participle.
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Selected Quran examples
مُسْتَقِرّ
mustaqirr
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Settled, established, placed, or abiding.
The Quranic form functions adjectivally or substantivally for something that has attained a settled condition or continues in one.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 27:40word 17
“placed”
Quran 54:38word 5
“abiding”
قَرَار
qarār
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 9 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Settledness, stability, permanence, or a firmly established condition.
This abstract sense describes the state of being fixed, secure, or enduring, including the notion of a permanent abode.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:26word 13
“stability”
A place or time of settlement, rest, residence, or completion; an abode or resting place.
The Quranic usage may refer to a dwelling, a place where a person or thing rests, or a determined point or term at which movement or a process ends.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 23:50word 10
“of tranquility”
Quran 27:61word 4
“a firm abode”
قَارُورَة
qārūrah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A glass vessel, flask, or bottle.
The Quranic plural refers to glass or crystal vessels; the singular citation form is used for dictionary presentation.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 27:44word 17
“glass”
Quran 76:15word 8
“(of) crystal”
قُرَّة
qurrah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A source of joy, comfort, delight, or contentment; literally, that by which the eye is cooled and put at rest.
The Quranic expression قُرَّةُ عَيْنٍ denotes something that brings deep emotional comfort or satisfaction; the eye-cooling image is linked with joy and relief.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 25:74word 9
“comfort”
Quran 32:17word 8
“(the) comfort”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:36مُسْتَقَرٌّۭ(is) a dwelling place
- 2:84أَقْرَرْتُمْyou ratified
- 3:81ءَأَقْرَرْتُمْDo you affirm
- 3:81أَقْرَرْنَا ۚWe affirm
- 6:67مُّسْتَقَرٌّۭ ۚ(is) a fixed time
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 31 Classical meanings
قَرَّ / قُرّ
To become cold; coldness, chill, or coolness.
The forms قَرَّ, قُرّ, and related variants can describe a cold day or night, the cold season, or cold by which a person or creature is affected.
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قَرَّ
To remain or rest in the womb, said of the stallion's semen.
This is a specialized bodily construction describing retained semen in the womb of a she-camel.
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قَرَّ
Of a woman, to remain quiet and not resist what is done to her, including sexual advances.
This specialized construction is explicitly associated with permitting kissing or attempted sexual gratification without repelling it.
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قَرَّ
To pour water or another liquid out or into a vessel, especially all at once.
The construction may take the liquid as object or use عَلَى for pouring it upon something and فِي for pouring it into a receptacle.
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قَرَّ
To pour speech or information into someone's ear; to tell or repeat it privately.
The expression is figurative and may imply entrusting information, speaking secretly, or repeating it so that a hearer understands.
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قَرَّرَ
To make someone acknowledge, confess, or admit something.
The verb may be construed with the truth, right, or due as the matter acknowledged and may imply pressing someone until acknowledgment occurs.
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قَارَّ
To settle, remain, or stay at rest with someone; to accept remaining together in a given condition.
The construction may also mean remaining still and without play during prayer.
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أَقَرَّ
To cause a person or thing to settle, remain, or continue in a place, condition, office, or assertion.
This broader Classical construction includes fixing something in its place, leaving an agent in his work, confirming an assertion, or establishing information in someone's mind.
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أَقَرَّ
To explain speech or language so that another person understands it.
This is a specialized causative use concerning making an utterance clear to a hearer.
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أَقَرَّ
To become quiet and submissive.
This is an intransitive Classical use distinct from the causative sense of making something remain.
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أَقَرَّ
Of a she-camel, to conceive or become pregnant, or for her pregnancy to become established.
The usage presents pregnancy as something established or retained in the womb.
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مُقِرّ
A she-camel whose pregnancy is established or who has conceived.
This is the corresponding adjectival or participial description of the pregnant animal.
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أَقَرَّ
To enter upon a time of cold, or to cause someone to be affected by cold.
The causative construction is used with God as subject in the cited Classical explanations; it is distinct from causing an eye to cool through joy.
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أَقَرَّ
To make someone's eye cool, refreshed, and contented; to give someone a joy that stills the eye.
The expression may refer to happiness, offspring, relief from sleeplessness, or receiving what satisfies the person.
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اِقْتَرَّ
To wash oneself with cold water.
The construction may be used with cold water or قَرُور, cold water used for washing.
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اِسْتَقَرَّ
To subsist, have being, or be in a stated relation or condition.
In Classical syntax, اِسْتَقَرَّ and its active participle may function almost as a copula, often with بِ prefixed to the predicate.
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اِسْتَقَرَّ
To obtain or hold.
This is a separately reported Classical extension of the Form X verb.
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يَوْمُ القَرّ
The day of rest at Mina after the day of sacrifice.
The name is explained by the people's settling or resting in their abodes or at Mina after the preceding exertions.
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قَرُور
Cold water used for washing.
The adjective functions substantivally as the name of the cold water itself.
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قَرُور
A woman who quietly permits sexual advances or does not repel the hand of one who touches or kisses her.
This specialized descriptive noun is explicitly associated with not preventing the gratification of another's lust.
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قَرِيرُ العَيْن
Having a cool, refreshed, and contented eye; joyful or relieved.
The expression describes an eye that ceases to weep, sees what it longs for, or becomes restful through happiness.
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فِرِّيَّة
The stomach, crop, or triple stomach of a bird.
This is a specialized anatomical noun equated with حَوْصَلَة.
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قَرَار
A settled region, district, or tract of inhabited and cultivated land.
The term can denote a region of towns, villages, or cultivated land and, by extension, its settled inhabitants.
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قَرَار / قَرَارَة
A depressed or low place where water collects and remains, including a pool, low meadow, or similar basin.
The term may be applied to fertile low ground, a small pool left by a torrent, or a low part such as the bottom of a body of water.
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قَرَارِيّ
A settled inhabitant of a region; also a resident tradesman or workman, such as a tailor, butcher, or artisan.
The first sense derives from remaining in settled dwellings; the occupational uses are recorded as established Classical applications.
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قَرْقَرَ
To emit a repeated resonant sound: a belly or cloud rumbles, liquid gurgles, a person laughs loudly, or an animal or bird cries repeatedly.
The verb is sound-symbolic and its subject determines the specific sound: a camel brays, a pigeon coos, or a hen gives a reiterated cackle.
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قُرْقُور
A long or large ship or boat.
The recorded plural is قَرَاقِير.
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قَارُورَة
A receptacle for fresh or dried dates.
This is a non-glass container sense, also called قَوْصَرَة.
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قَارُورَة
The black central part of the eye surrounded by the white.
This figurative use compares the eye's clarity and reflected image to a glass vessel.
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قَارُورَة
A woman or wife, figuratively likened to a glass vessel.
The metaphor emphasizes fragility, weakness, and the fact that a child or seed rests in the womb.
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مَقْرُور
Affected or smitten by cold.
This passive description is related to the causative expression أَقَرَّهُ اللهُ for causing someone to experience cold.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The QAC Form I group combines ordinary forms of قَرَّ with contracted or variant Quranic readings represented by forms such as قَرْنَ and قِرْنَ; the examples therefore do not all share one surface form.
Several Lane Quran citations use historical citation notation or discuss readings whose modern location is not independently secure here; those citations have not been converted into unverified modern verse locations.
The Quranic قَوَارِيرَ group is presented under the supported singular dictionary citation form قَارُورَة.
The active and passive participles مُسْتَقِرّ and مُسْتَقَرّ are kept separate despite their identical undiacritized spelling.