Root

ز-ي-ل

zyl·z-y-l

10 occurrences10 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
زالَتzālat8
زَيَّلْzayyal1
تَزَيَّلُtazayyalu1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ز-ي-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 Iفَعَلَ8×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • زالَتzālat8
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • زَيَّلْzayyal1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَزَيَّلُtazayyalu1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ز-ي-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ز-ي-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 10 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 11 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 132 pages — pages 339470, juzʾ 1724.

Occurrences · 10 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-ي-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ز-ي-ل (zyl) occurs 10 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 ز-ي-ل occur?

10 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ز-ي-ل (zyl), out of 10 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ز-ي-ل?

ز-ي-ل (zyl) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently زالَت (zālat, 8×), زَيَّلْ (zayyal, 1×), and تَزَيَّلُ (tazayyalu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.