Root

غ-ف-ل

ghfl·gh-f-l

35 occurrences35 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
غافِلghāfil27—
غَفْلَةghaflah5—
تَغْفُلُtaghfulu1—
أَغْفَلْaghfal1—
غافِلَةghāfilah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on غ-ف-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 Iفَعَلَ29×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • غافِلghāfil27
    • تَغْفُلُtaghfulu1
    • غافِلَةghāfilah1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَغْفَلْaghfal1

Covers 30 of this root’s 35 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 غ-ف-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times غ-ف-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 34 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 9 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 85 pages — pages 520–604, juzʾ 26–30.

Occurrences · 35 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 غ-ف-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root غ-ف-ل (ghfl) occurs 35 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 35 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 غ-ف-ل occur?

35 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from غ-ف-ل (ghfl), out of 35 total occurrences.

What words come from the root غ-ف-ل?

غ-ف-ل (ghfl) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently غافِل (ghāfil, 27×), غَفْلَة (ghaflah, 5×), تَغْفُلُ (taghfulu, 1×), أَغْفَلْ (aghfal, 1×), and غافِلَة (ghāfilah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.