Root

أ-و-ي

wy·2-w-y

36 occurrences36 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَأْوَىmaʾwā22
آوَىāwā9
أَوَىawā5

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on أ-و-ي

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ5×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • أَوَىawā5
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ9×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • آوَىāwā9

Covers 14 of this root’s 36 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-و-ي 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 33 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 15 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 76 pages — pages 426501, juzʾ 2225.

Occurrences · 36 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-و-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-و-ي (wy) occurs 36 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 36 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-و-ي occur?

36 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-و-ي (wy), out of 36 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-و-ي?

أ-و-ي (wy) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَأْوَى (maʾwā, 22×), آوَى (āwā, 9×), and أَوَى (awā, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.