Divine Discourses

Toward direct engagement with the Qur'an

Exercise: Spot the roots

Repetition is one of a surah's structural signals. When a triliteral root recurs, the discourse is circling a concept. This exercise trains your eye to see it in the Arabic before any tool tells you.

Pick a short surah. Tap every word you believe shares a root with another word in the same surah. When you are done, reveal the answer: the recurring root families are highlighted and counted from the corpus data.

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Arabic word tokens, root assignments, and counts from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus v0.4 (Kais Dukes, 2009–2017), bundled locally in data/morphology/. Explore any highlighted root further on the Roots page.

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