Root

أ-س-و

sw·2-s-w

7 occurrences7 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
تَأْسَtaʾsa4
أُسْوَةuswah3

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-س-و falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-س-و 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 7 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 6 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 257 pages — pages 163419, juzʾ 921.

Occurrences · 7 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-س-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-س-و (sw) occurs 7 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 7 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-س-و occur?

7 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-س-و (sw), out of 7 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-س-و?

أ-س-و (sw) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently تَأْسَ (taʾsa, 4×) and أُسْوَة (uswah, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.