Root

ق-ص-د

qṣd·q-s9-d

6 occurrences6 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مُقْتَصِدmuqtaṣid2
مُقْتَصِدَةmuqtaṣidah1
قاصِدqāṣid1
قَصْدqaṣd1
اقْصِدْāqṣid1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-ص-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

    • قاصِدqāṣid1
    • اقْصِدْāqṣid1
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ3×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • مُقْتَصِدmuqtaṣid2
    • مُقْتَصِدَةmuqtaṣidah1

Covers 5 of this root’s 6 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 ق-ص-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ق-ص-د falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-ص-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 6 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 21 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 166 pages — pages 439604, juzʾ 2230.

Occurrences · 6 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 ق-ص-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-ص-د (qṣd) occurs 6 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 6 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 ق-ص-د occur?

6 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-ص-د (qṣd), out of 6 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-ص-د?

ق-ص-د (qṣd) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مُقْتَصِد (muqtaṣid, 2×), مُقْتَصِدَة (muqtaṣidah, 1×), قاصِد (qāṣid, 1×), قَصْد (qaṣd, 1×), and اقْصِدْ (āqṣid, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.