Root

ع-ل-ق

ʿlq·3-l-q

7 occurrences6 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عَلَقَةʿalaqah5—
مُعَلَّقَةmuʿallaqah1—
عَلَقʿalaq1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-ل-ق falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-ل-ق 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 6 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 18 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 232 pages — pages 100–331, juzʾ 5–17.

Occurrences · 7 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 ع-ل-ق appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ل-ق (ʿlq) occurs 7 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 6 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 ع-ل-ق occur?

6 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ل-ق (ʿlq), out of 7 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ل-ق?

ع-ل-ق (ʿlq) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عَلَقَة (ʿalaqah, 5×), مُعَلَّقَة (muʿallaqah, 1×), and عَلَق (ʿalaq, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.