Root

ر-س-و

rsw·r-s-w

14 occurrences14 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَواسِيrawāsī10—
مُرْسَىmursā3—
أَرْسَىarsā1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ر-س-و

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 Iفَعَلَ11×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • رَواسِيrawāsī10
    • أَرْسَىarsā1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ3×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُرْسَىmursā3

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ر-س-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ر-س-و falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-س-و 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 13 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 14 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 173 pages — pages 1–173, juzʾ 1–9.

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 ر-س-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-س-و (rsw) occurs 14 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 14 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-س-و occur?

14 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-س-و (rsw), out of 14 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-س-و?

ر-س-و (rsw) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَواسِي (rawāsī, 10×), مُرْسَى (mursā, 3×), and أَرْسَى (arsā, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.