Root

و-ل-د

wld·w-l-d

102 occurrences80 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
وَلَدwalad56
والِدwālid14
والِدَيwāliday10
وَلَدَwalada9
وَلِيدwalīd7
والِدَةwālidah3
مَوْلُودmawlūd3

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with و-ل-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-ل-د falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ل-د 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 67 of 604 pages (11%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (10 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 36 pages — pages 459494, juzʾ 2325.

Occurrences · 102 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-ل-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ل-د (wld) occurs 102 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 80 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-ل-د occur?

80 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ل-د (wld), out of 102 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ل-د?

و-ل-د (wld) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently وَلَد (walad, 56×), والِد (wālid, 14×), والِدَي (wāliday, 10×), وَلَدَ (walada, 9×), and وَلِيد (walīd, 7×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.