Root

ع-ف-ف

ʿff·3-f-f

4 occurrences4 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَسْتَعْفِفْyastaʿfif3
تَعَفُّفtaʿaffuf1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ف-ف

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 Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَعَفُّفtaʿaffuf1
  2. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ3×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَعْفِفْyastaʿfif3

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-ف-ف falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ف-ف 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 4 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 18 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 276 pages — pages 78353, juzʾ 418.

Occurrences · 4 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 ع-ف-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ف-ف (ʿff) occurs 4 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 4 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 ع-ف-ف occur?

4 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ف-ف (ʿff), out of 4 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ف-ف?

ع-ف-ف (ʿff) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَسْتَعْفِفْ (yastaʿfif, 3×) and تَعَفُّف (taʿaffuf, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.