Root

ف-ع-ل

fʿl·f-3-l

108 occurrences102 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
فَعَلَfaʿala88—
فاعِلfāʿil9—
مَفْعُولmafʿūl7—
فَعّالfaʿʿāl2—
فِعْلfiʿl1—
فَعْلَتfaʿlat1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ف-ع-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 94 of 604 pages (16%)

Densest in juzʾ 17 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 26 pages — pages 187–212, juzʾ 10–11.

Occurrences · 108 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 ف-ع-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ف-ع-ل (fʿl) occurs 108 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 102 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 ف-ع-ل occur?

102 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ف-ع-ل (fʿl), out of 108 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ف-ع-ل?

ف-ع-ل (fʿl) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently فَعَلَ (faʿala, 88×), فاعِل (fāʿil, 9×), مَفْعُول (mafʿūl, 7×), فَعّال (faʿʿāl, 2×), and فِعْل (fiʿl, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.