Root

ظ-ل-م

ẓlm·z9-l-m

315 occurrences290 verses12 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ظالِمẓālim129
ظَلَمَẓalama110
ظُلُمَةẓulumah23
ظُلْمẓulm20
أَظْلَمaẓlam16
ظَلّامẓallām5
ظالِمَةẓālimah4
ظالِمِيẓālimī2
مُظْلِمmuẓlim2
ظَلُومẓalūm2
أَظْلَمَaẓlama1
مَظْلُومmaẓlūm1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ظ-ل-م

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 Iفَعَلَ244×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ظالِمẓālim129
    • ظَلَمَẓalama110
    • ظالِمَةẓālimah4
    • مَظْلُومmaẓlūm1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ3×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُظْلِمmuẓlim2
    • أَظْلَمَaẓlama1

Covers 247 of this root’s 315 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-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ظ-ل-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 234 of 604 pages (39%)

Densest in juzʾ 17 (18 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 24 pages — pages 581604, juzʾ 2930.

Occurrences · 315 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-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ظ-ل-م (ẓlm) occurs 315 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 290 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-م occur?

290 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ظ-ل-م (ẓlm), out of 315 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ظ-ل-م?

ظ-ل-م (ẓlm) yields 12 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ظالِم (ẓālim, 129×), ظَلَمَ (ẓalama, 110×), ظُلُمَة (ẓulumah, 23×), ظُلْم (ẓulm, 20×), and أَظْلَم (aẓlam, 16×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.