Root

ط-و-ف

ṭwf·t9-w-f

41 occurrences35 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
طائِفَةṭāʾifah24—
طافَṭāfa8—
طائِفṭāʾif4—
يَطَّوَّفَyaṭṭawwafa2—
طُوفانṭūfān2—
طَوّافṭawwāf1—

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

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 Iفَعَلَ12×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • طافَṭāfa8
    • طائِفṭāʾif4
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ2×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَطَّوَّفَyaṭṭawwafa2

Covers 14 of this root’s 41 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-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ط-و-ف 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 33 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 29 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 128 pages — pages 207–334, juzʾ 11–17.

Occurrences · 41 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-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ط-و-ف (ṭwf) occurs 41 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 35 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-ف occur?

35 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ط-و-ف (ṭwf), out of 41 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ط-و-ف?

ط-و-ف (ṭwf) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently طائِفَة (ṭāʾifah, 24×), طافَ (ṭāfa, 8×), طائِف (ṭāʾif, 4×), يَطَّوَّفَ (yaṭṭawwafa, 2×), and طُوفان (ṭūfān, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.