# Mim-Vav-Ra — مور (mwr)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/mwr

- **Meaning:** Move from side to side, move to and fro, come and go, move round about, be in a state of commotion or tumult, to circulate.
- **Derived forms:** تَمُورُ (2) · مَوْر (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 52. Surah At-Tur, Verse 9

- **Form in this verse:** تَمُورُ — tamūru · "will shake"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

يَوْمَ تَمُورُ السَّمَٓاءُ مَوْراًۙ

Yawma tamooru assamao mawra

The day the heaven shakes, reeling,

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tur/verse-9.md_

### 52. Surah At-Tur, Verse 9

- **Form in this verse:** مَوْرًۭا — mawran · "(with violent) shake"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

يَوْمَ تَمُورُ السَّمَٓاءُ مَوْراًۙ

Yawma tamooru assamao mawra

The day the heaven shakes, reeling,

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tur/verse-9.md_

### 67. Surah Al-Mulk, Verse 16

- **Form in this verse:** تَمُورُ — tamūru · "sways"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

ءَاَمِنْتُمْ مَنْ فِي السَّمَٓاءِ اَنْ يَخْسِفَ بِكُمُ الْاَرْضَ فَاِذَا هِيَ تَمُورُۙ

Aamintum man fee assama-i anyakhsifa bikumu al-arda fa-itha hiya tamoor

Do you feel secure that He who is in the heaven will not make the earth swallow you, the while it shakes?

_https://quran.so/surah-al-mulk/verse-16.md_

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