Root

و-ط-أ

wṭ·w-t9-2

6 occurrences5 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَطَأُyaṭaʾu3
يُواطِئُyūāṭiʾu1
مَوْطِئmawṭi1
وَطْءwaṭ1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ط-أ

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَطَأُyaṭaʾu3
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • يُواطِئُyūāṭiʾu1

Covers 4 of this root’s 6 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-ط-أ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-ط-أ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ط-أ 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 5 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 11 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 214 pages — pages 207420, juzʾ 1121.

Occurrences · 6 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-ط-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ط-أ (wṭ) occurs 6 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 5 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-ط-أ occur?

5 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ط-أ (wṭ), out of 6 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ط-أ?

و-ط-أ (wṭ) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَطَأُ (yaṭaʾu, 3×), يُواطِئُ (yūāṭiʾu, 1×), مَوْطِئ (mawṭi, 1×), and وَطْء (waṭ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.