Root

س-و-م

swm·s-w-m

15 occurrences15 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سِيماsīmā6
يَسُومُyasūmu4
مُسَوَّمَةmusawwamah3
مُسَوِّمmusawwim1
تُسِيمُtusīmu1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-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 Iفَعَلَ4×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَسُومُyasūmu4
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ4×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُسَوَّمَةmusawwamah3
    • مُسَوِّمmusawwim1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • تُسِيمُtusīmu1

Covers 9 of this root’s 15 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 س-و-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-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 14 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 241 pages — pages 269509, juzʾ 1426.

Occurrences · 15 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 س-و-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-و-م (swm) occurs 15 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 15 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 س-و-م occur?

15 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-و-م (swm), out of 15 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-و-م?

س-و-م (swm) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سِيما (sīmā, 6×), يَسُومُ (yasūmu, 4×), مُسَوَّمَة (musawwamah, 3×), مُسَوِّم (musawwim, 1×), and تُسِيمُ (tusīmu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.