Root

ش-ي-أ

shy·sh-y-2

519 occurrences449 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
شَىْءshā283
شاءَshāʾa236

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ش-ي-أ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ش-ي-أ 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 319 of 604 pages (53%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (32 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 13 pages — pages 592604, juzʾ 3030.

Occurrences · 519 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-ي-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ش-ي-أ (shy) occurs 519 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 449 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-ي-أ occur?

449 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ش-ي-أ (shy), out of 519 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ش-ي-أ?

ش-ي-أ (shy) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently شَىْء (shā, 283×) and شاءَ (shāʾa, 236×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.