Root

ظ-ل-ل

ẓll·z9-l-l

33 occurrences31 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ظِلّẓill14
ظَلَّẓalla9
ظُلَّةẓullah6
ظَلَّلْẓallal2
ظَلِيلẓalīl2

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ظ-ل-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 Iفَعَلَ9×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ظَلَّẓalla9
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • ظَلَّلْẓallal2

Covers 11 of this root’s 33 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 ظ-ل-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ظ-ل-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ظ-ل-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 28 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 14 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 83 pages — pages 88170, juzʾ 59.

Occurrences · 33 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 ظ-ل-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ظ-ل-ل (ẓll) occurs 33 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 31 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 ظ-ل-ل occur?

31 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ظ-ل-ل (ẓll), out of 33 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ظ-ل-ل?

ظ-ل-ل (ẓll) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ظِلّ (ẓill, 14×), ظَلَّ (ẓalla, 9×), ظُلَّة (ẓullah, 6×), ظَلَّلْ (ẓallal, 2×), and ظَلِيل (ẓalīl, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.