Root

ع-ر-ف

ʿrf·3-r-f

71 occurrences63 verses9 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَعْرُوفmaʿrūf38—
عَرَفَʿarafa20—
اعْتَرَفُāʿtarafu3—
أَعْرافaʿrāf2—
عُرْفʿurf2—
يَتَعارَفُyataʿārafu2—
عَرَّفَʿarrafa2—
عَرَفاتʿarafāt1—
مَعْرُوفَةmaʿrūfah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-ر-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 Iفَعَلَ59×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • مَعْرُوفmaʿrūf38
    • عَرَفَʿarafa20
    • مَعْرُوفَةmaʿrūfah1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • عَرَّفَʿarrafa2
  3. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ2×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • يَتَعارَفُyataʿārafu2
  4. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ3×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اعْتَرَفُāʿtarafu3

Covers 66 of this root’s 71 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 ع-ر-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ر-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 51 of 604 pages (8%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (17 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 60 pages — pages 277–336, juzʾ 14–17.

Occurrences · 71 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-ر-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ر-ف (ʿrf) occurs 71 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 63 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-ر-ف occur?

63 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ر-ف (ʿrf), out of 71 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ر-ف?

ع-ر-ف (ʿrf) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَعْرُوف (maʿrūf, 38×), عَرَفَ (ʿarafa, 20×), اعْتَرَفُ (āʿtarafu, 3×), أَعْراف (aʿrāf, 2×), and عُرْف (ʿurf, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.