Root

ض-ل-ل

ḍll·d9-l-l

191 occurrences170 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَضَلَّaḍalla64
ضَلَّḍalla53
ضَلالḍalāl38
ضالّḍāll14
ضَلالَةḍalālah9
أَضَلّaḍall9
مُضِلّmuḍill3
تَضْلِيلtaḍlīl1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ض-ل-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 Iفَعَلَ67×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ضَلَّḍalla53
    • ضالّḍāll14
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • تَضْلِيلtaḍlīl1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ67×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَضَلَّaḍalla64
    • مُضِلّmuḍill3

Covers 135 of this root’s 191 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-ل-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ض-ل-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ض-ل-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 146 of 604 pages (24%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (14 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 18 pages — pages 175192, juzʾ 910.

Occurrences · 191 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-ل-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ض-ل-ل (ḍll) occurs 191 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 170 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-ل-ل occur?

170 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ض-ل-ل (ḍll), out of 191 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ض-ل-ل?

ض-ل-ل (ḍll) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَضَلَّ (aḍalla, 64×), ضَلَّ (ḍalla, 53×), ضَلال (ḍalāl, 38×), ضالّ (ḍāll, 14×), and ضَلالَة (ḍalālah, 9×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.