Root

م-ه-د

mhd·m-h-d

16 occurrences15 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مِهادmihād7
مَهْدmahd5
يَمْهَدُyamhadu1
ماهِدmāhid1
مَهَّدmahhad1
تَمْهِيدtamhīd1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on م-ه-د

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

    • يَمْهَدُyamhadu1
    • ماهِدmāhid1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مَهَّدmahhad1
    • تَمْهِيدtamhīd1

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 م-ه-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where م-ه-د falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times م-ه-د 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 15 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 95 pages — pages 156250, juzʾ 813.

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 م-ه-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root م-ه-د (mhd) occurs 16 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 15 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 م-ه-د occur?

15 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from م-ه-د (mhd), out of 16 total occurrences.

What words come from the root م-ه-د?

م-ه-د (mhd) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مِهاد (mihād, 7×), مَهْد (mahd, 5×), يَمْهَدُ (yamhadu, 1×), ماهِد (māhid, 1×), and مَهَّد (mahhad, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.