Root

ك-ي-ل

kyl·k-y-l

16 occurrences13 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
كَيْلkayl10
مِكْيالmikyāl2
اكْتالُāktālu2
كالُkālu2

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ك-ي-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 Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • كالُkālu2
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ2×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اكْتالُāktālu2

Covers 4 of this root’s 16 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-ي-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ك-ي-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 9 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 13 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 212 pages — pages 375586, juzʾ 1930.

Occurrences · 16 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-ي-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ك-ي-ل (kyl) occurs 16 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 13 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-ي-ل occur?

13 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ك-ي-ل (kyl), out of 16 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ك-ي-ل?

ك-ي-ل (kyl) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently كَيْل (kayl, 10×), مِكْيال (mikyāl, 2×), اكْتالُ (āktālu, 2×), and كالُ (kālu, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.