Root

ي-و-م

ywm·y-w-m

475 occurrences437 verses1 form

Core sense · interpretive

day (yawm).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يَوْمyawm475

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ي-و-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ي-و-م 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 264 of 604 pages (44%)

Densest in juzʾ 29 (49 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 12 pages — pages 159170, juzʾ 89.

Occurrences · 475 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-و-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ي-و-م (ywm) occurs 475 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 437 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-و-م occur?

437 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ي-و-م (ywm), out of 475 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ي-و-م?

ي-و-م (ywm) yields 1 distinct derived form in the Qurʾān, most frequently يَوْم (yawm, 475×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root ي-و-م mean?

The core sense of ي-و-م (ywm) is day (yawm). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.