Root

و-ص-ل

wṣl·w-s9-l

12 occurrences10 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَصِلُyaṣilu10
وَصِيلَةwaṣīlah1
وَصَّلْwaṣṣal1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ص-ل

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 Iفَعَلَ10×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَصِلُyaṣilu10
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • وَصَّلْwaṣṣal1

Covers 11 of this root’s 12 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-ص-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ص-ل 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 9 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 13 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 212 pages — pages 393604, juzʾ 2030.

Occurrences · 12 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-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ص-ل (wṣl) occurs 12 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 10 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-ل occur?

10 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ص-ل (wṣl), out of 12 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ص-ل?

و-ص-ل (wṣl) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَصِلُ (yaṣilu, 10×), وَصِيلَة (waṣīlah, 1×), and وَصَّلْ (waṣṣal, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.