Root

ل-م-س

lms·l-m-s

5 occurrences5 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
لَمَسُlamasu4
الْتَمِسُat-tamisu1

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

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 Iفَعَلَ4×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • لَمَسُlamasu4
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • الْتَمِسُat-tamisu1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ل-م-س more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ل-م-س 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 5 (1 occurrence). The longest stretch without it runs 410 pages — pages 129538, juzʾ 727.

Occurrences · 5 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 ل-م-س appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ل-م-س (lms) occurs 5 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 5 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 ل-م-س occur?

5 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ل-م-س (lms), out of 5 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ل-م-س?

ل-م-س (lms) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently لَمَسُ (lamasu, 4×) and الْتَمِسُ (at-tamisu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.