Derived forms
| Form | Translit | Count | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| خَفَّفَ | khaffafa | 8 | — |
| خَفَّتْ | khaffat | 3 | — |
| اسْتَخَفَّ | āstakhaffa | 3 | — |
| خَفِيف | khafīf | 2 | — |
| تَخْفِيف | takhfīf | 1 | — |
Derived forms tree · the patterns built on خ-ف-ف
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.
- Form Iفَعَلَ3×
the base sense, unmarked · interpretive
- خَفَّتْkhaffat3
- Form IIفَعَّلَ9×
often intensive or causative · interpretive
- خَفَّفَkhaffafa8
- تَخْفِيفtakhfīf1
- Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ3×
often seeking or deeming · interpretive
- اسْتَخَفَّāstakhaffa3
Covers 15 of this root’s 17 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 خ-ف-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →
Word path · where خ-ف-ف falls in the muṣḥaf
Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times خ-ف-ف 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.
Densest in juzʾ 2 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 106 pages — pages 494–599, juzʾ 25–30.
Occurrences · 17 in mushaf order
يُخَفَّفُ
يُخَفَّفُ
تَخْفِيفٌ
يُخَفَّفُ
يُخَفِّفَ
خَفَّتْ
خَفِيفًا
خَفَّفَ
خِفَافًا
تَسْتَخِفُّونَهَا
يُخَفَّفُ
خَفَّتْ
يَسْتَخِفَّنَّكَ
يُخَفَّفُ
يُخَفِّفْ
فَٱسْتَخَفَّ
خَفَّتْ
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 →