Taqwa InstituteWehr Root Explorer
مُسْتَكْشِف الجُذُور
Wehr–Cowan 1976
loading index…
Taqwa InstituteWehr Root Explorer
مُسْتَكْشِف الجُذُور
Wehr–Cowan 1976
Type a root in Arabic or with English letters. You get the root’s type, the scale (wazn) of every verb form Hans Wehr records for it — past, present, imperative, verbal noun, active and passive participle — full conjugations, and the original entry cut straight from the 1976 scan.
Search. Arabic input is normalised (hamza forms, alif maqṣūra, tashkīl are ignored). An inflected word such as مكتبة or يستغفرون is stripped of affixes to guess its root. Latin input is read strictly: k = ك, kh = خ, t = ت, th = ث, d = د, dh = ذ, s = س, sh = ش, g/gh = غ, j = ج, q = ق, h = ه, ' = ع/ء. Capitals mark emphatics (T ط, S ص, D ض, Z ظ, H ح) and chat numerals work too (3 = ع, 7 = ح, 5 = خ, 9 = ص, 6 = ط, 2 = ء). A vowel cluster like the “ai” in faila can hide a weak letter or ʿayn. If the strict reading is not in the dictionary, the letters English cannot distinguish (h ه/ح, s س/ص, t ت/ط, d د/ض, z ز/ظ) are tried and listed separately as alternate readings.
Patterns. Verb forms I–X (and quadriliteral QI, QII, QIV) are generated by a morphology engine that applies the classical rules for sound, hamzated, doubled, assimilated, hollow and defective roots. Forms marked with a green frame were found in the Wehr entry; the rest are shown so you can compare. For Form I the past and present stem vowels come from Wehr’s notation (e.g. kataba u) when the scan could be read; change them with the vowel switches if needed. Form I verbal nouns are lexical, so they are taken from the entry and reconstructed from Wehr’s transliteration.
The entry. The image is cut from the scanned page. If a root reading is uncertain (an OCR limitation on this 1976 print), the nearest alphabetical neighbours are offered and the full page is one click away.
Shortcuts: / focus search · ↑↓ pick a suggestion · Esc close.
Page
100%