عَمِلَ
ʿamila: to do, to work
The 44th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
عَمِلَ (ʿamila) means "to do, to work". It appears 276 times in the Quran, making it the 44th most common word: about 0.36% of all the words you read.
#44most common word
276times in the Quran
0.36%of all the words
255ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُۥ
Az-Zalzalah 99:7 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:25.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways عَمِلَ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- تَعْمَلُونَ83×
- يَعْمَلُونَ56×
- وَعَمِلُوا۟53×
- عَمِلُوا۟18×
- وَعَمِلَ11×
Verbs are listed by their past-tense "he" form, as in Arabic dictionaries. The count includes every form of the verb, such as "he says", "they said" and "say!".
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.