Root

ح-ر-ف

ḥrf·7-r-f

6 occurrences6 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يُحَرِّفُyuḥarrifu4
مُتَحَرِّفmutaḥarrif1
حَرْفḥarf1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ح-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 IIفَعَّلَ4×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُحَرِّفُyuḥarrifu4
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • مُتَحَرِّفmutaḥarrif1

Covers 5 of this root’s 6 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 ح-ر-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-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 6 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 6 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 271 pages — pages 334604, juzʾ 1730.

Occurrences · 6 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 ح-ر-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-ر-ف (ḥrf) occurs 6 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 6 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 ح-ر-ف occur?

6 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-ر-ف (ḥrf), out of 6 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-ر-ف?

ح-ر-ف (ḥrf) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يُحَرِّفُ (yuḥarrifu, 4×), مُتَحَرِّف (mutaḥarrif, 1×), and حَرْف (ḥarf, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.