Root

ب-ط-ل

bṭl·b-t9-l

36 occurrences34 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
باطِلbāṭil26—
مُبْطِلmubṭil5—
يُبْطِلَyubṭila4—
بَطَلَbaṭala1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ب-ط-ل

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 Iفَعَلَ27×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • باطِلbāṭil26
    • بَطَلَbaṭala1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ9×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُبْطِلmubṭil5
    • يُبْطِلَyubṭila4

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ب-ط-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ب-ط-ل 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 33 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 9 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 94 pages — pages 511–604, juzʾ 26–30.

Occurrences · 36 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-ط-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ب-ط-ل (bṭl) occurs 36 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 34 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-ط-ل occur?

34 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ب-ط-ل (bṭl), out of 36 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ب-ط-ل?

ب-ط-ل (bṭl) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently باطِل (bāṭil, 26×), مُبْطِل (mubṭil, 5×), يُبْطِلَ (yubṭila, 4×), and بَطَلَ (baṭala, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.