Root

غ-ش-و

ghshw·gh-sh-w

29 occurrences26 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
غَشِيَghashīa13—
أُغْشِيَتْughshīat4—
غاشِيَةghāshīah3—
غَشَّىghashshā3—
غِشاوَةghishāwah2—
اسْتَغْشَāstaghsha2—
تَغَشَّىtaghashshā1—
مَغْشِيّmaghshiyy1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on غ-ش-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 Iفَعَلَ17×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • غَشِيَghashīa13
    • غاشِيَةghāshīah3
    • مَغْشِيّmaghshiyy1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ3×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • غَشَّىghashshā3
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ4×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أُغْشِيَتْughshīat4
  4. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَغَشَّىtaghashshā1
  5. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ2×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَغْشَāstaghsha2

Covers 27 of this root’s 29 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 غ-ش-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where غ-ش-و falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times غ-ش-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 25 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 84 pages — pages 71–154, juzʾ 4–8.

Occurrences · 29 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 غ-ش-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root غ-ش-و (ghshw) occurs 29 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 26 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 غ-ش-و occur?

26 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from غ-ش-و (ghshw), out of 29 total occurrences.

What words come from the root غ-ش-و?

غ-ش-و (ghshw) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently غَشِيَ (ghashīa, 13×), أُغْشِيَتْ (ughshīat, 4×), غاشِيَة (ghāshīah, 3×), غَشَّى (ghashshā, 3×), and غِشاوَة (ghishāwah, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.