Root

ف-ص-ل

fṣl·f-s9-l

43 occurrences42 verses9 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
فَصَّلَfaṣṣala17—
فَصْلfaṣl9—
فَصَلَfaṣala5—
تَفْصِيلtafṣīl5—
فِصالfiṣāl3—
فاصِلfāṣil1—
مُفَصَّلmufaṣṣal1—
مُفَصَّلَةmufaṣṣalah1—
فَصِيلَتfaṣīlat1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ف-ص-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 Iفَعَلَ6×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • فَصَلَfaṣala5
    • فاصِلfāṣil1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ23×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • فَصَّلَfaṣṣala17
    • تَفْصِيلtafṣīl5
    • مُفَصَّلmufaṣṣal1

Covers 29 of this root’s 43 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-ص-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ف-ص-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

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

Densest in juzʾ 8 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 92 pages — pages 42–133, juzʾ 3–7.

Occurrences · 43 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-ص-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ف-ص-ل (fṣl) occurs 43 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 42 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-ص-ل occur?

42 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ف-ص-ل (fṣl), out of 43 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ف-ص-ل?

ف-ص-ل (fṣl) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently فَصَّلَ (faṣṣala, 17×), فَصْل (faṣl, 9×), فَصَلَ (faṣala, 5×), تَفْصِيل (tafṣīl, 5×), and فِصال (fiṣāl, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.