Root

و-ر-ي

wry·w-r-y

32 occurrences31 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
وَراءwarā24
وُۥرِيَwurīa4
تَوارَتْtawārat2
تُورُtūru1
مُورِيَةmūrīah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ر-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 IIIفَاعَلَ4×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • وُۥرِيَwurīa4
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • تُورُtūru1
    • مُورِيَةmūrīah1
  3. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ2×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَوارَتْtawārat2

Covers 8 of this root’s 32 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-ر-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ر-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 30 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 30 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 76 pages — pages 349424, juzʾ 1822.

Occurrences · 32 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-ر-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ر-ي (wry) occurs 32 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 31 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-ر-ي occur?

31 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ر-ي (wry), out of 32 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ر-ي?

و-ر-ي (wry) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently وَراء (warā, 24×), وُۥرِيَ (wurīa, 4×), تَوارَتْ (tawārat, 2×), تُورُ (tūru, 1×), and مُورِيَة (mūrīah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.