Root

و-ق-ي

wqy·w-q-y

258 occurrences237 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اتَّقَىāttaqā166—
مُتَّقيmuttaqy49—
تَقْوَىtaqwā17—
وَقَىwaqā16—
تَقِيّtaqiyy4—
واقwāq3—
أَتْقَىatqā2—
تُقاةtuqāh1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ق-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 Iفَعَلَ20×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • وَقَىwaqā16
    • واقwāq3
    • تُقاةtuqāh1
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ215×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اتَّقَىāttaqā166
    • مُتَّقيmuttaqy49

Covers 235 of this root’s 258 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-ق-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ق-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 181 of 604 pages (30%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (23 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 24 pages — pages 282–305, juzʾ 15–16.

Occurrences · 258 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-ق-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ق-ي (wqy) occurs 258 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 237 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-ق-ي occur?

237 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ق-ي (wqy), out of 258 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ق-ي?

و-ق-ي (wqy) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اتَّقَى (āttaqā, 166×), مُتَّقي (muttaqy, 49×), تَقْوَى (taqwā, 17×), وَقَى (waqā, 16×), and تَقِيّ (taqiyy, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.