Root

و-ف-ي

wfy·w-f-y

66 occurrences64 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
تَوَفَّىtawaffā24
أَوْفَىawfā20
وَفَّىwaffā18
مُوفيmūfy1
مُتَوَفِّيmutawaffī1
مُوَفُّوmūaffū1
يَسْتَوْفُyastawfu1

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

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 IIفَعَّلَ19×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • وَفَّىwaffā18
    • مُوَفُّوmūaffū1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ19×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَوْفَىawfā18
    • مُوفيmūfy1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ25×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَوَفَّىtawaffā24
    • مُتَوَفِّيmutawaffī1
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَوْفُyastawfu1

Covers 64 of this root’s 66 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 و-ف-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ف-ي 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 57 of 604 pages (9%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 51 pages — pages 528578, juzʾ 2729.

Occurrences · 66 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 و-ف-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ف-ي (wfy) occurs 66 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 64 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 و-ف-ي occur?

64 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ف-ي (wfy), out of 66 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ف-ي?

و-ف-ي (wfy) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently تَوَفَّى (tawaffā, 24×), أَوْفَى (awfā, 20×), وَفَّى (waffā, 18×), مُوفي (mūfy, 1×), and مُتَوَفِّي (mutawaffī, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.