Root

و-س-ع

wsʿ·w-s-3

32 occurrences29 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
واسِعwāsiʿ9—
سَعَةsaʿah6—
وَسِعَwasiʿa6—
وُسْعwusʿ5—
واسِعَةwāsiʿah4—
مُوسِعmūsiʿ2—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-س-ع

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 Iفَعَلَ19×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • واسِعwāsiʿ9
    • وَسِعَwasiʿa6
    • واسِعَةwāsiʿah4
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُوسِعmūsiʿ2

Covers 21 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-س-ع more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-س-ع falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-س-ع 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 28 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 147 pages — pages 171–317, juzʾ 9–16.

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-س-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-س-ع (wsʿ) occurs 32 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 29 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-س-ع occur?

29 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-س-ع (wsʿ), out of 32 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-س-ع?

و-س-ع (wsʿ) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently واسِع (wāsiʿ, 9×), سَعَة (saʿah, 6×), وَسِعَ (wasiʿa, 6×), وُسْع (wusʿ, 5×), and واسِعَة (wāsiʿah, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.