Root

و-ص-ف

wṣf·w-s9-f

14 occurrences14 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَصِفُyaṣifu13—
وَصْفwaṣf1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ص-ف 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 11 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 17 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 139 pages — pages 1–139, juzʾ 1–7.

Occurrences · 14 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-ص-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ص-ف (wṣf) occurs 14 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 14 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-ص-ف occur?

14 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ص-ف (wṣf), out of 14 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ص-ف?

و-ص-ف (wṣf) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَصِفُ (yaṣifu, 13×) and وَصْف (waṣf, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.