Root

ث-ق-ل

thql·th-q-l

28 occurrences26 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مِثْقالmithqāl8—
ثَقَلthaqal6—
ثَقِيلthaqīl5—
ثَقُلَتْthaqulat4—
مُثْقَلmuthqal2—
أَثْقَلَتathqalat1—
اثّاقَلْāththāqal1—
مُثْقَلَةmuthqalah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ث-ق-ل

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 Iفَعَلَ4×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ثَقُلَتْthaqulat4
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ4×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُثْقَلmuthqal2
    • أَثْقَلَتathqalat1
    • مُثْقَلَةmuthqalah1
  3. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • اثّاقَلْāththāqal1

Covers 9 of this root’s 28 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 ث-ق-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ث-ق-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

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

Densest in juzʾ 30 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 88 pages — pages 437–524, juzʾ 22–27.

Occurrences · 28 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 ث-ق-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ث-ق-ل (thql) occurs 28 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 26 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 ث-ق-ل occur?

26 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ث-ق-ل (thql), out of 28 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ث-ق-ل?

ث-ق-ل (thql) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مِثْقال (mithqāl, 8×), ثَقَل (thaqal, 6×), ثَقِيل (thaqīl, 5×), ثَقُلَتْ (thaqulat, 4×), and مُثْقَل (muthqal, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.