Root

ب-د-و

bdw·b-d-w

31 occurrences29 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يُبْدِيَyubdīa15—
بَداbadā11—
بادِيbādī1—
بَدْوbadw1—
بادbād1—
باديbādy1—
مُبْدِيmubdī1—

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

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 Iفَعَلَ14×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • بَداbadā11
    • بادِيbādī1
    • بادbād1
    • باديbādy1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ16×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُبْدِيَyubdīa15
    • مُبْدِيmubdī1

Covers 30 of this root’s 31 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 ب-د-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-د-و 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 26 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 7 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 72 pages — pages 248–319, juzʾ 13–16.

Occurrences · 31 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-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-د-و (bdw) occurs 31 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 29 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-و occur?

29 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-د-و (bdw), out of 31 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-د-و?

ب-د-و (bdw) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يُبْدِيَ (yubdīa, 15×), بَدا (badā, 11×), بادِي (bādī, 1×), بَدْو (badw, 1×), and باد (bād, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.