Root

ي-أ-س

yʾs·y-2-s

13 occurrences11 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَئِسَyaʾisa8
يَئُوسyaʾūs3
اسْتَيْأَسَāstayʾasa2

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ي-أ-س

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 Iفَعَلَ8×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَئِسَyaʾisa8
  2. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ2×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَيْأَسَāstayʾasa2

Covers 10 of this root’s 13 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 ي-أ-س more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ي-أ-س falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ي-أ-س 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 13 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 114 pages — pages 108221, juzʾ 611.

Occurrences · 13 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 ي-أ-س appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ي-أ-س (yʾs) occurs 13 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 11 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 ي-أ-س occur?

11 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ي-أ-س (yʾs), out of 13 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ي-أ-س?

ي-أ-س (yʾs) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَئِسَ (yaʾisa, 8×), يَئُوس (yaʾūs, 3×), and اسْتَيْأَسَ (āstayʾasa, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.