Root

ش-م-ل

shml·sh-m-l

12 occurrences11 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
شِمالshimāl8—
اشْتَمَلَتْāshtamalat2—
شَمائِلshamāʾil2—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ش-م-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ش-م-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ش-م-ل 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 9 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 8 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 146 pages — pages 1–146, juzʾ 1–8.

Occurrences · 12 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 ش-م-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ش-م-ل (shml) occurs 12 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 11 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 ش-م-ل occur?

11 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ش-م-ل (shml), out of 12 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ش-م-ل?

ش-م-ل (shml) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently شِمال (shimāl, 8×), اشْتَمَلَتْ (āshtamalat, 2×), and شَمائِل (shamāʾil, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.