كِتَاب
Kitāb: book
The 49th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
كِتَاب (kitāb) means "book". It appears 260 times in the Quran, making it the 49th most common word: about 0.34% of all the words you read.
#49most common word
260times in the Quran
0.34%of all the words
236ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
كِتَٰبٌ مَّرْقُومٌ
Al-Mutaffifin 83:9 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:2.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways كِتَاب is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- ٱلْكِتَٰبَ78×
- ٱلْكِتَٰبِ77×
- كِتَٰبٌ16×
- كِتَٰبٍ15×
- كِتَٰبًا12×
The count includes every form of the word: singular and plural, and with endings like "the", "and" or "his" attached.
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.