Root

ر-و-د

rwd·r-w-d

148 occurrences120 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَرادَarāda139—
راوَدُrāwadu8—
رُوَيْدrūayd1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ر-و-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 IIIفَاعَلَ8×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • راوَدُrāwadu8
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ139×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَرادَarāda139

Covers 147 of this root’s 148 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-و-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-و-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 101 of 604 pages (17%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (14 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 26 pages — pages 486–511, juzʾ 25–26.

Occurrences · 148 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-و-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-و-د (rwd) occurs 148 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 120 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-و-د occur?

120 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-و-د (rwd), out of 148 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-و-د?

ر-و-د (rwd) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَرادَ (arāda, 139×), راوَدُ (rāwadu, 8×), and رُوَيْد (rūayd, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.