Root

أ-ل-ف

lf·2-l-f

22 occurrences19 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَلْفalf14
أَلَّفَallafa5
إِلافilāf2
مُؤَلَّفَةmuʾallafah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on أ-ل-ف

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 IIفَعَّلَ6×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • أَلَّفَallafa5
    • مُؤَلَّفَةmuʾallafah1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • إِلافilāf2

Covers 8 of this root’s 22 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 أ-ل-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-ل-ف falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-ل-ف 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 15 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 10 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 141 pages — pages 197337, juzʾ 1017.

Occurrences · 22 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 أ-ل-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-ل-ف (lf) occurs 22 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 19 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 أ-ل-ف occur?

19 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-ل-ف (lf), out of 22 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-ل-ف?

أ-ل-ف (lf) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَلْف (alf, 14×), أَلَّفَ (allafa, 5×), إِلاف (ilāf, 2×), and مُؤَلَّفَة (muʾallafah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.