Root

ق-و-م

qwm·q-w-m

660 occurrences597 verses22 forms

Core sense · interpretive

to stand, be upright (qiyām, mustaqīm).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قَوْمqawm383—
قِيامَةqīāmah70—
أَقامَaqāma54—
مُسْتَقِيمmustaqīm37—
قامَqāma33—
قائِمqāʾim17—
مَقامmaqām14—
مُقِيمmuqīm10—
اسْتَقامُāstaqāmu10—
قائِمَةqāʾimah5—
قَيِّمqayyim5—
أَقْوَمaqwam4—
قَيُّومqayyūm3—
قَوّامqawwām3—
مُقامmuqām3—
إِقامiqām2—
قَيِّمَةqayyimah2—
قِيَمqīam1—
إِقامَتiqāmat1—
قَوامqawām1—
مُقامَةmuqāmah1—
تَقْوِيمtaqwīm1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-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 Iفَعَلَ55×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • قامَqāma33
    • قائِمqāʾim17
    • قائِمَةqāʾimah5
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • تَقْوِيمtaqwīm1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ71×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَقامَaqāma54
    • مُقِيمmuqīm10
    • مُقامmuqām3
    • إِقامiqām2
    • إِقامَتiqāmat1
    • مُقامَةmuqāmah1
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ47×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • مُسْتَقِيمmustaqīm37
    • اسْتَقامُāstaqāmu10

Covers 174 of this root’s 660 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-و-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-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 362 of 604 pages (60%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (45 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 10 pages — pages 423–432, juzʾ 22–22.

Occurrences · 660 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-و-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-و-م (qwm) occurs 660 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 597 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-و-م occur?

597 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-و-م (qwm), out of 660 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-و-م?

ق-و-م (qwm) yields 22 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قَوْم (qawm, 383×), قِيامَة (qīāmah, 70×), أَقامَ (aqāma, 54×), مُسْتَقِيم (mustaqīm, 37×), and قامَ (qāma, 33×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root ق-و-م mean?

The core sense of ق-و-م (qwm) is to stand, be upright (qiyām, mustaqīm). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.