Root

ض-ع-ف

ḍʿf·d9-3-f

52 occurrences45 verses11 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ضِعْفḍiʿf11—
يُضاعِفُyuḍāʿifu9—
ضَعِيفḍaʿīf8—
اسْتَضْعَفُāstaḍʿafu8—
مُسْتَضْعَفmustaḍʿaf5—
ضَعْفḍaʿf4—
ضَعُفَḍaʿufa2—
أَضْعَفaḍʿaf2—
مُضاعَفَةmuḍāʿafah1—
ضِعافḍiʿāf1—
مُضْعِفmuḍʿif1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ض-ع-ف

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 Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ضَعُفَḍaʿufa2
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ10×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • يُضاعِفُyuḍāʿifu9
    • ضِعافḍiʿāf1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُضْعِفmuḍʿif1
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ13×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَضْعَفُāstaḍʿafu8
    • مُسْتَضْعَفmustaḍʿaf5

Covers 26 of this root’s 52 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 ض-ع-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ض-ع-ف falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ض-ع-ف 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 39 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 65 pages — pages 473–537, juzʾ 24–27.

Occurrences · 52 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 ض-ع-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ض-ع-ف (ḍʿf) occurs 52 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 45 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 ض-ع-ف occur?

45 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ض-ع-ف (ḍʿf), out of 52 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ض-ع-ف?

ض-ع-ف (ḍʿf) yields 11 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ضِعْف (ḍiʿf, 11×), يُضاعِفُ (yuḍāʿifu, 9×), ضَعِيف (ḍaʿīf, 8×), اسْتَضْعَفُ (āstaḍʿafu, 8×), and مُسْتَضْعَف (mustaḍʿaf, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.