Root

ط-و-ع

ṭwʿ·t9-w-3

129 occurrences118 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَطاعَaṭāʿa72—
اسْتَطاعَāstaṭāʿa42—
طَوْعṭawʿ4—
طاعَةṭāʿah3—
تَطَوَّعَtaṭawwaʿa2—
يُطاعُyuṭāʿu2—
طَوَّعَتْṭawwaʿat1—
مُطَّوِّعmuṭṭawwiʿ1—
طائِعṭāʾiʿ1—
مُطاعmuṭāʿ1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ط-و-ع

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يُطاعُyuṭāʿu2
    • طائِعṭāʾiʿ1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • طَوَّعَتْṭawwaʿat1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ73×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَطاعَaṭāʿa72
    • مُطاعmuṭāʿ1
  4. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ3×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَطَوَّعَtaṭawwaʿa2
    • مُطَّوِّعmuṭṭawwiʿ1
  5. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ42×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَطاعَāstaṭāʿa42

Covers 122 of this root’s 129 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 ط-و-ع more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ط-و-ع falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ط-و-ع 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 97 of 604 pages (16%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 31 pages — pages 144–174, juzʾ 8–9.

Occurrences · 129 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 ط-و-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ط-و-ع (ṭwʿ) occurs 129 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 118 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 ط-و-ع occur?

118 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ط-و-ع (ṭwʿ), out of 129 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ط-و-ع?

ط-و-ع (ṭwʿ) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَطاعَ (aṭāʿa, 72×), اسْتَطاعَ (āstaṭāʿa, 42×), طَوْع (ṭawʿ, 4×), طاعَة (ṭāʿah, 3×), and تَطَوَّعَ (taṭawwaʿa, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.