Root

ب-غ-ي

bghy·b-gh-y

96 occurrences90 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ابْتَغَىābtaghā34—
بَغَىbaghā25—
ابْتِغاءābtighā14—
بَغْيbaghy11—
يَنۢبَغِيyanbaghī6—
باغbāgh3—
بَغِيّbaghiyy2—
بِغاءbighā1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ب-غ-ي

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 Iفَعَلَ29×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • بَغَىbaghā25
    • باغbāgh3
    • بِغاءbighā1
  2. Form VIIاِنْفَعَلَ6×

    often passive or resultative · interpretive

    • يَنۢبَغِيyanbaghī6
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ48×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • ابْتَغَىābtaghā34
    • ابْتِغاءābtighā14

Covers 83 of this root’s 96 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-غ-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ب-غ-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-غ-ي 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 85 of 604 pages (14%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 28 pages — pages 456–483, juzʾ 23–25.

Occurrences · 96 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-غ-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-غ-ي (bghy) occurs 96 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 90 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-غ-ي occur?

90 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-غ-ي (bghy), out of 96 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-غ-ي?

ب-غ-ي (bghy) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ابْتَغَى (ābtaghā, 34×), بَغَى (baghā, 25×), ابْتِغاء (ābtighā, 14×), بَغْي (baghy, 11×), and يَنۢبَغِي (yanbaghī, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.