Root

ز-ك-و

zkw·z-k-w

59 occurrences56 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
زَكاةzakāh32—
زَكَّىzakkā12—
تَزَكَّىtazakkā8—
أَزْكَىazkā4—
زَكِيَّةzakiyyah1—
زَكِيّzakiyy1—
زَكَىzakā1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ز-ك-و

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 Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • زَكَىzakā1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ12×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • زَكَّىzakkā12
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ8×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَزَكَّىtazakkā8

Covers 21 of this root’s 59 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 ز-ك-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ز-ك-و falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ز-ك-و 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 53 of 604 pages (9%)

Densest in juzʾ 18 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 91 pages — pages 204–294, juzʾ 11–15.

Occurrences · 59 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 ز-ك-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ز-ك-و (zkw) occurs 59 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 56 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 ز-ك-و occur?

56 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ز-ك-و (zkw), out of 59 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ز-ك-و?

ز-ك-و (zkw) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently زَكاة (zakāh, 32×), زَكَّى (zakkā, 12×), تَزَكَّى (tazakkā, 8×), أَزْكَى (azkā, 4×), and زَكِيَّة (zakiyyah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.