Root

أ-ل-و

lw·2-l-w

37 occurrences37 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
آلاءālā34—
يُؤْلُyuʾlu1—
يَأْلُyaʾlu1—
يَأْتَلِyaʾtali1—

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

    • يَأْلُyaʾlu1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُؤْلُyuʾlu1
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • يَأْتَلِyaʾtali1

Covers 3 of this root’s 37 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-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

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

Densest in juzʾ 27 (32 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 191 pages — pages 161–351, juzʾ 8–18.

Occurrences · 37 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-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-ل-و (lw) occurs 37 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 37 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-و occur?

37 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-ل-و (lw), out of 37 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-ل-و?

أ-ل-و (lw) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently آلاء (ālā, 34×), يُؤْلُ (yuʾlu, 1×), يَأْلُ (yaʾlu, 1×), and يَأْتَلِ (yaʾtali, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.