Root

ع-ل-و

ʿlw·3-l-w

70 occurrences68 verses15 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
تَعالَىtaʿālā14
عَلِيّʿaliyy11
أَعْلَىaʿlā9
تَعالَtaʿāla8
عَلاʿalā6
عالِيʿālī4
عُلُوّʿuluww4
عُلْياʿulyā3
أَعْلَوْنaʿlawn2
عاليʿāly2
عالِيَةʿālīah2
عِلِّيّʿilliyy2
عالʿāl1
مُتَعالmutaʿāl1
اسْتَعْلَىāstaʿlā1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-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 Iفَعَلَ15×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • عَلاʿalā6
    • عالِيʿālī4
    • عاليʿāly2
    • عالِيَةʿālīah2
    • عالʿāl1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ8×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • تَعالَtaʿāla8
  3. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ15×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَعالَىtaʿālā14
    • مُتَعالmutaʿāl1
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَعْلَىāstaʿlā1

Covers 39 of this root’s 70 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 ع-ل-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-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 61 of 604 pages (10%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 41 pages — pages 141, juzʾ 12.

Occurrences · 70 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-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ل-و (ʿlw) occurs 70 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 68 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-و occur?

68 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ل-و (ʿlw), out of 70 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ل-و?

ع-ل-و (ʿlw) yields 15 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently تَعالَى (taʿālā, 14×), عَلِيّ (ʿaliyy, 11×), أَعْلَى (aʿlā, 9×), تَعالَ (taʿāla, 8×), and عَلا (ʿalā, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.