Root

أ-و-ب

wb·2-w-b

17 occurrences17 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَآبmaʾāb9—
أَوّابawwāb6—
أَوِّبِawwibi1—
إِيابīāb1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with أ-و-ب more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-و-ب 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 12 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 23 (8 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 201 pages — pages 52–252, juzʾ 3–13.

Occurrences · 17 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-و-ب appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-و-ب (wb) occurs 17 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 17 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-و-ب occur?

17 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-و-ب (wb), out of 17 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-و-ب?

أ-و-ب (wb) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَآب (maʾāb, 9×), أَوّاب (awwāb, 6×), أَوِّبِ (awwibi, 1×), and إِياب (īāb, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.