Root

ل-ق-ي

lqy·l-q-y

146 occurrences135 verses16 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَلْقَىalqā71—
لِقاءliqā24—
لَقُlaqu14—
الْتَقَىat-taqā7—
لَقَّىlaqqā6—
تَلَقَّىtalaqqā4—
مُلاقُواmulāqūā4—
تِلْقاءtilqā3—
مُلْقيmulqy3—
يُلاقُyulāqu3—
مُلاقِيmulāqī2—
لاقِيlāqī1—
تَلاقtalāq1—
مُتَلَقِّيانmutalaqqīān1—
مُلاقmulāq1—
مُلْقِيَةmulqīah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ل-ق-ي

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 Iفَعَلَ14×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • لَقُlaqu14
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ6×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • لَقَّىlaqqā6
  3. Form IIIفَاعَلَ35×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • لِقاءliqā24
    • مُلاقُواmulāqūā4
    • يُلاقُyulāqu3
    • مُلاقِيmulāqī2
    • لاقِيlāqī1
    • مُلاقmulāq1
  4. Form IVأَفْعَلَ75×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَلْقَىalqā71
    • مُلْقيmulqy3
    • مُلْقِيَةmulqīah1
  5. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ5×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَلَقَّىtalaqqā4
    • مُتَلَقِّيانmutalaqqīān1
  6. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَلاقtalāq1
  7. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ7×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • الْتَقَىat-taqā7

Covers 143 of this root’s 146 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 ل-ق-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ل-ق-ي 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 104 of 604 pages (17%)

Densest in juzʾ 19 (14 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 24 pages — pages 425–448, juzʾ 22–23.

Occurrences · 146 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-ق-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ل-ق-ي (lqy) occurs 146 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 135 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-ق-ي occur?

135 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ل-ق-ي (lqy), out of 146 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ل-ق-ي?

ل-ق-ي (lqy) yields 16 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَلْقَى (alqā, 71×), لِقاء (liqā, 24×), لَقُ (laqu, 14×), الْتَقَى (at-taqā, 7×), and لَقَّى (laqqā, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.