Root

م-ل-أ

ml·m-l-2

40 occurrences40 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَلَأmala30
مُلِئَتْmuliʾat6
مالِئmāli2
مِلْءmil1
امْتَلَأْāmtala1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on م-ل-أ

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 Iفَعَلَ8×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • مُلِئَتْmuliʾat6
    • مالِئmāli2
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • امْتَلَأْāmtala1

Covers 9 of this root’s 40 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 م-ل-أ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where م-ل-أ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times م-ل-أ 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 36 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 9 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 90 pages — pages 62151, juzʾ 48.

Occurrences · 40 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 م-ل-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root م-ل-أ (ml) occurs 40 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 40 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 م-ل-أ occur?

40 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from م-ل-أ (ml), out of 40 total occurrences.

What words come from the root م-ل-أ?

م-ل-أ (ml) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَلَأ (mala, 30×), مُلِئَتْ (muliʾat, 6×), مالِئ (māli, 2×), مِلْء (mil, 1×), and امْتَلَأْ (āmtala, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.