Root

د-ع-و

dʿw·d-3-w

212 occurrences182 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
دَعاdaʿā170—
دُعاءduʿā22—
دَعْوَةdaʿwah6—
دَعْوَىdaʿwā4—
داعِيdāʿī4—
داعdāʿ3—
يَدَّعُyaddaʿu3—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on د-ع-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 Iفَعَلَ177×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • دَعاdaʿā170
    • داعِيdāʿī4
    • داعdāʿ3
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ3×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • يَدَّعُyaddaʿu3

Covers 180 of this root’s 212 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 د-ع-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times د-ع-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 138 of 604 pages (23%)

Densest in juzʾ 24 (23 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 34 pages — pages 98–131, juzʾ 5–7.

Occurrences · 212 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 د-ع-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root د-ع-و (dʿw) occurs 212 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 182 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 د-ع-و occur?

182 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from د-ع-و (dʿw), out of 212 total occurrences.

What words come from the root د-ع-و?

د-ع-و (dʿw) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently دَعا (daʿā, 170×), دُعاء (duʿā, 22×), دَعْوَة (daʿwah, 6×), دَعْوَى (daʿwā, 4×), and داعِي (dāʿī, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.