Root

ف-ت-ح

ftḥ·f-t-7

38 occurrences33 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
فَتَحَfataḥa16—
فَتْحfatḥ12—
اسْتَفْتَحُāstaftaḥu3—
مَفاتِحmafātiḥ3—
تُفَتَّحُtufattaḥu1—
فاتِحfātiḥ1—
فَتّاحfattāḥ1—
مُفَتَّحَةmufattaḥah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ف-ت-ح

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 Iفَعَلَ17×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • فَتَحَfataḥa16
    • فاتِحfātiḥ1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • تُفَتَّحُtufattaḥu1
    • مُفَتَّحَةmufattaḥah1
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ3×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَفْتَحُāstaftaḥu3

Covers 22 of this root’s 38 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 ف-ت-ح more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ف-ت-ح falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ف-ت-ح 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 31 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 9 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 86 pages — pages 15–100, juzʾ 1–5.

Occurrences · 38 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-ت-ح appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ف-ت-ح (ftḥ) occurs 38 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 33 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-ت-ح occur?

33 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ف-ت-ح (ftḥ), out of 38 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ف-ت-ح?

ف-ت-ح (ftḥ) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently فَتَحَ (fataḥa, 16×), فَتْح (fatḥ, 12×), اسْتَفْتَحُ (āstaftaḥu, 3×), مَفاتِح (mafātiḥ, 3×), and تُفَتَّحُ (tufattaḥu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.