Root

د-ف-ع

dfʿ·d-f-3

10 occurrences9 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
دَفَعْdafaʿ5
دَفْعdafʿ2
دافِعdāfiʿ2
يُدافِعُyudāfiʿu1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on د-ف-ع

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 Iفَعَلَ9×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • دَفَعْdafaʿ5
    • دَفْعdafʿ2
    • دافِعdāfiʿ2
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • يُدافِعُyudāfiʿu1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where د-ف-ع falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times د-ف-ع 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 9 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 4 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 258 pages — pages 78335, juzʾ 417.

Occurrences · 10 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 د-ف-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root د-ف-ع (dfʿ) occurs 10 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 9 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 د-ف-ع occur?

9 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from د-ف-ع (dfʿ), out of 10 total occurrences.

What words come from the root د-ف-ع?

د-ف-ع (dfʿ) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently دَفَعْ (dafaʿ, 5×), دَفْع (dafʿ, 2×), دافِع (dāfiʿ, 2×), and يُدافِعُ (yudāfiʿu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.