Root

ص-ل-ي

ṣly·s9-l-y

25 occurrences25 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَصْلَىyaṣlā13—
أُصْلِيuṣlī4—
تَصْطَلُtaṣṭalu2—
صالُواṣālūā2—
صِلِيّṣiliyy1—
صالṣāl1—
تَصْلِيَةtaṣlīah1—
صَلُّṣallu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-ل-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 Iفَعَلَ16×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَصْلَىyaṣlā13
    • صالُواṣālūā2
    • صالṣāl1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • تَصْلِيَةtaṣlīah1
    • صَلُّṣallu1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ4×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أُصْلِيuṣlī4
  4. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ2×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • تَصْطَلُtaṣṭalu2

Covers 24 of this root’s 25 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 ص-ل-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ص-ل-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-ل-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 24 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 30 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 161 pages — pages 98–258, juzʾ 5–13.

Occurrences · 25 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 ص-ل-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-ل-ي (ṣly) occurs 25 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 25 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 ص-ل-ي occur?

25 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-ل-ي (ṣly), out of 25 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-ل-ي?

ص-ل-ي (ṣly) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَصْلَى (yaṣlā, 13×), أُصْلِي (uṣlī, 4×), تَصْطَلُ (taṣṭalu, 2×), صالُوا (ṣālūā, 2×), and صِلِيّ (ṣiliyy, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.