Root

م-ت-ع

mtʿ·m-t-3

70 occurrences65 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَتاعmatāʿ35—
مَتَّعْmattaʿ18—
تَمَتَّعَtamattaʿa11—
اسْتَمْتَعَāstamtaʿa6—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on م-ت-ع

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 IIفَعَّلَ18×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مَتَّعْmattaʿ18
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ11×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَمَتَّعَtamattaʿa11
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ6×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَمْتَعَāstamtaʿa6

Covers 35 of this root’s 70 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-ت-ع more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where م-ت-ع falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times م-ت-ع 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 63 of 604 pages (10%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 40 pages — pages 281–320, juzʾ 14–16.

Occurrences · 70 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-ت-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root م-ت-ع (mtʿ) occurs 70 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 65 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-ت-ع occur?

65 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from م-ت-ع (mtʿ), out of 70 total occurrences.

What words come from the root م-ت-ع?

م-ت-ع (mtʿ) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَتاع (matāʿ, 35×), مَتَّعْ (mattaʿ, 18×), تَمَتَّعَ (tamattaʿa, 11×), and اسْتَمْتَعَ (āstamtaʿa, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.