Root

ل-و-م

lwm·l-w-m

14 occurrences12 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَلُومmalūm5
لُمْlum3
مُلِيمmulīm2
لَوْمَةlawmah1
لائِمlāʾim1
يَتَلاوَمُyatalāwamu1
لَوّامَةlawwāmah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ل-و-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 Iفَعَلَ9×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • مَلُومmalūm5
    • لُمْlum3
    • لائِمlāʾim1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُلِيمmulīm2
  3. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • يَتَلاوَمُyatalāwamu1

Covers 12 of this root’s 14 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-و-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ل-و-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 12 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 29 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 121 pages — pages 118238, juzʾ 612.

Occurrences · 14 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-و-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ل-و-م (lwm) occurs 14 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 12 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-و-م occur?

12 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ل-و-م (lwm), out of 14 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ل-و-م?

ل-و-م (lwm) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَلُوم (malūm, 5×), لُمْ (lum, 3×), مُلِيم (mulīm, 2×), لَوْمَة (lawmah, 1×), and لائِم (lāʾim, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.