Root

أ-ك-ل

kl·2-k-l

109 occurrences101 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَكَلَakala93
أُكُلukul7
أَكْلakl4
آكِلākil3
أَكّالakkāl1
مَأْكُولmaʾkūl1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with أ-ك-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-ك-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-ك-ل occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 81 of 604 pages (13%)

Densest in juzʾ 18 (11 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 55 pages — pages 362416, juzʾ 1921.

Occurrences · 109 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root أ-ك-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-ك-ل (kl) occurs 109 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 101 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does أ-ك-ل occur?

101 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-ك-ل (kl), out of 109 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-ك-ل?

أ-ك-ل (kl) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَكَلَ (akala, 93×), أُكُل (ukul, 7×), أَكْل (akl, 4×), آكِل (ākil, 3×), and أَكّال (akkāl, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.