Root

ر-أ-ي

rʾy·r-2-y

328 occurrences297 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَأَىraʾā271
أَرَيْaray40
رُءْياruʾyā7
رِئاءriʾā3
رَأْىraʾā2
يُراءُyurāʾu2
تَراءَتِtarāʾati2
رِءْيriʾy1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ر-أ-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 Iفَعَلَ271×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • رَأَىraʾā271
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ5×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • رِئاءriʾā3
    • يُراءُyurāʾu2
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ40×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَرَيْaray40
  4. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ2×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَراءَتِtarāʾati2

Covers 318 of this root’s 328 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 ر-أ-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ر-أ-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-أ-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 201 of 604 pages (33%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (25 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 15 pages — pages 7084, juzʾ 45.

Occurrences · 328 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 ر-أ-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-أ-ي (rʾy) occurs 328 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 297 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 ر-أ-ي occur?

297 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-أ-ي (rʾy), out of 328 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-أ-ي?

ر-أ-ي (rʾy) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَأَى (raʾā, 271×), أَرَيْ (aray, 40×), رُءْيا (ruʾyā, 7×), رِئاء (riʾā, 3×), and رَأْى (raʾā, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.