Root

ف-س-د

fsd·f-s-d

50 occurrences47 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مُفْسِدmufsid21—
أَفْسَدُafsadu15—
فَسادfasād11—
فَسَدَتِfasadati3—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ف-س-د

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • فَسَدَتِfasadati3
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ36×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُفْسِدmufsid21
    • أَفْسَدُafsadu15

Covers 39 of this root’s 50 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 ف-س-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ف-س-د falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ف-س-د 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 44 of 604 pages (7%)

Densest in juzʾ 20 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 83 pages — pages 510–592, juzʾ 26–30.

Occurrences · 50 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 ف-س-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ف-س-د (fsd) occurs 50 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 47 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 ف-س-د occur?

47 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ف-س-د (fsd), out of 50 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ف-س-د?

ف-س-د (fsd) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مُفْسِد (mufsid, 21×), أَفْسَدُ (afsadu, 15×), فَساد (fasād, 11×), and فَسَدَتِ (fasadati, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.