Root

أ-و-ل

wl·2-w-l

125 occurrences119 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَوَّلawwal82
آلāl26
تَأْوِيلtaʾwīl17

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-و-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 98 of 604 pages (16%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (11 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 39 pages — pages 88126, juzʾ 57.

Occurrences · 125 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-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-و-ل (wl) occurs 125 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 119 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-ل occur?

119 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-و-ل (wl), out of 125 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-و-ل?

أ-و-ل (wl) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَوَّل (awwal, 82×), آل (āl, 26×), and تَأْوِيل (taʾwīl, 17×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.