Root

ف-ي-أ

fy·f-y-2

7 occurrences6 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
فاءُfāʾu3
أَفاءَafāʾa3
يَتَفَيَّؤُا۟yatafayyaʾuā1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ف-ي-أ

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

    • فاءُfāʾu3
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ3×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَفاءَafāʾa3
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَفَيَّؤُا۟yatafayyaʾuā1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ف-ي-أ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ف-ي-أ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ف-ي-أ 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 5 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 26 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 235 pages — pages 37271, juzʾ 214.

Occurrences · 7 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-ي-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ف-ي-أ (fy) occurs 7 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 6 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-ي-أ occur?

6 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ف-ي-أ (fy), out of 7 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ف-ي-أ?

ف-ي-أ (fy) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently فاءُ (fāʾu, 3×), أَفاءَ (afāʾa, 3×), and يَتَفَيَّؤُا۟ (yatafayyaʾuā, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.