Root

ه-و-ي

hwy·h-w-y

38 occurrences37 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَهْواءahwā17
هَواءhawā11
هَوَىhawā8
اسْتَهْوَتْāstahwat1
هاوِيَةhāwīah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ه-و-ي

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

    • هَوَىhawā8
    • هاوِيَةhāwīah1
  2. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَهْوَتْāstahwat1

Covers 10 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 ه-و-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ه-و-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ه-و-ي 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 32 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 80 pages — pages 174253, juzʾ 913.

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 ه-و-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ه-و-ي (hwy) occurs 38 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 37 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 ه-و-ي occur?

37 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ه-و-ي (hwy), out of 38 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ه-و-ي?

ه-و-ي (hwy) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَهْواء (ahwā, 17×), هَواء (hawā, 11×), هَوَى (hawā, 8×), اسْتَهْوَتْ (āstahwat, 1×), and هاوِيَة (hāwīah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.