Root

ب-د-أ

bd·b-d-2

15 occurrences14 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
بَدَأَbadaʾa12—
يُبْدِئُyubdiʾu3—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ب-د-أ

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 Iفَعَلَ12×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • بَدَأَbadaʾa12
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ3×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُبْدِئُyubdiʾu3

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ب-د-أ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-د-أ 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 13 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 11 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 155 pages — pages 435–589, juzʾ 22–30.

Occurrences · 15 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 ب-د-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-د-أ (bd) occurs 15 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 14 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 ب-د-أ occur?

14 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-د-أ (bd), out of 15 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-د-أ?

ب-د-أ (bd) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently بَدَأَ (badaʾa, 12×) and يُبْدِئُ (yubdiʾu, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.