Quran Words Voice Search App

Quran Words Voice Search, for Android and for iPhone, is free to install. Say any word of the Qur'an out loud, or type it in English letters, and the app finds it: what it means, how it is built, and the ayah it lives in. Then it reads the word back to you in Arabic. Everything is on your phone: no internet, no ads, no tracking.

How the free trial works

Your first ten word lookups open the whole app: every word, every place it occurs, the sound-alikes, the verb roots with their full tables, and the rigid nouns. After that, one payment, Quran Words Pro, opens the app for good. There is no subscription.

Some things stay free for everyone, always: finding any word, the 86 particles, and the whole Qur'an in English. If you bought the app before it became free, nothing changes for you: it stays fully open.

An example

Type hamd, or press the microphone and say it. The app finds الْحَمْدُ, "praise", a noun from the root ح م د. It shows the word in Al-Fatihah 1:2 with the words around it and their meanings, lists every other ayah where it occurs, and links to the other words built on the same root. Tap the Arabic and you hear it.

Find a word by its sound

Press the microphone and say the word the way it is recited. The search does not look for exact letters: it reduces what you said to its sounds and ranks all 18,993 words of the Qur'an by how near they come. The article ٱل is optional, vowel marks never matter, and a near miss still finds the word.

Hear it spoken

Every Arabic word in the app can be heard. Tap one anywhere (a particle, a rigid noun, a headword or pattern in the root tables, the word at the top of its page) and it is pronounced in full, ending and all, in your phone's own Arabic voice. The pronunciation follows the vowel marks exactly: yansuru, not yansara.

In a Qur'anic example, tap one word to hear it alone, or tap the meanings underneath to hear the whole passage read as one phrase. Voice search answers in voice too: it says what it heard and repeats the word in Arabic.

Type it as it sounds

No Arabic keyboard is needed. Type hamd, layl or dhul-qarnain and the word appears. For a word carrying the article, add a dash: al-hamdu, ar-rahman, ash-shams. A built-in letter guide shows how to write each Arabic letter in English, and letters that share a sound share a spelling: s finds both س and ص.

Every word, explained

Each of the 18,993 distinct words carries:

• its meaning as the Qur'an actually uses it, from the word-by-word renderings
• the dictionary sense, when it adds something
• its grammar in plain words, such as "perfect verb, Form IV, 3rd person masculine plural"
• the particles and pronouns attached to it, each explained
• a Qur'anic example with the words around it and their meanings
• every place it occurs, with the surrounding words a tap away
• the other words built on the same root, one tap from its full tables

All 86 particles

Every particle (harf) the Qur'an uses, grouped as the grammarians group them: prepositions, conjunctions, particles of negation, condition, question, emphasis, answer and more, each with all the meanings it can carry. Pronouns, pointing words and question words are listed beside them.

Words that sound alike

1,216 sets of Qur'anic words a listener could take for one another: the same letters read with different vowels, and different letters that make nearly the same sound. Every set says which letters tell its members apart.

The full root tables

A complete sarf reference: all 941 verb roots of the Qur'an, form by form (I to X), one table per form. Each table gives the perfect, imperfect, imperative, verbal nouns, participles and derived nouns, each marked as Qur'anic or dictionary. Every occurrence is shown inside its ayah.

And the 188 rigid nouns, the Qur'an's nouns that come from no verb at all, each with the part of the ayah its meaning came from.

The whole Qur'an in English, free

Read the whole Qur'an in English like a book, in the translation of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and Prof. Farida Khanam, with English surah names and a contents page. Or press play and hear it read aloud, calmly, verse by verse, in the voice you choose. It works offline, and it is free for everyone, with or without Pro.

How it was built

Grammar and roots follow the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology, and the word-by-word renderings follow its translation data. Dictionary senses come from Wiktionary, checked against the classical lexicons and the Qur'an's own renderings. The About page in the app lists every source.

What it does not do

It works without the internet; the only time it goes online is when you tap Check for updates. It shows no advertisements and collects nothing about you. The only permission it asks for is to hear the word you say. It is the work of one person who wanted to look up the words he heard recited.

Get the app

Android: Quran Words Voice Search on Google Play
iPhone: Quran Words Voice Search on the App Store

If the app helps you understand the Qur'an, please leave a rating. Ratings are what let other students find it. And if a word or a meaning looks wrong, email me: corrections are checked against the sources and shipped.