Root Finder

Enter one Arabic word. You get its root, the other words built on that root, an example of it in use, and the English meaning.

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Where the answers come from. Nothing here is written by an AI at lookup time. Every root, meaning and example is retrieved from published scholarly sources. If a word is not in them, the tool says so and does not guess.

Roots, word families and meanings: ElixirFM lexicon (Otakar Smrž, Charles University; GPL), built on the Buckwalter Arabic lexicon. Word analysis (prefixes, stems, suffixes): Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer tables as distributed with CAMeL Tools, NYU Abu Dhabi (GPL v2). Examples and classical root cross-check: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology v0.4 (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds; GPL) with Tanzil.net Qur'an text (CC BY 3.0). English of the examples: M. M. Pickthall, 1930 (public domain).

Vowel marks on dictionary forms follow the lexicon; sukūn and the final fatḥa of past-tense verbs are added by rule. Meanings are short glosses, not full dictionary entries.