Root

ك-ل-م

klm·k-l-m

75 occurrences71 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
كَلِمَةkalimah42
كَلَّمَkallama20
كَلامkalām4
كَلِمkalim4
يَتَكَلَّمُyatakallamu4
تَكْلِيمtaklīm1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ك-ل-م

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 IIفَعَّلَ21×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • كَلَّمَkallama20
    • تَكْلِيمtaklīm1
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ4×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَكَلَّمُyatakallamu4

Covers 25 of this root’s 75 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 ك-ل-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ك-ل-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ك-ل-م 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 66 of 604 pages (11%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 46 pages — pages 515560, juzʾ 2628.

Occurrences · 75 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 ك-ل-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ك-ل-م (klm) occurs 75 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 71 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 ك-ل-م occur?

71 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ك-ل-م (klm), out of 75 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ك-ل-م?

ك-ل-م (klm) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently كَلِمَة (kalimah, 42×), كَلَّمَ (kallama, 20×), كَلام (kalām, 4×), كَلِم (kalim, 4×), and يَتَكَلَّمُ (yatakallamu, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.