Root

م-و-ت

mwt·m-w-t

165 occurrences143 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَوْتmawt50
ماتَmāta39
مَيِّتmayyit38
أَماتَamāta21
مَيْتَةmaytah6
مَيْتmayt5
مَماتmamāt3
مَوْتَتmawtat3

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

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 Iفَعَلَ39×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ماتَmāta39
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ21×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَماتَamāta21

Covers 60 of this root’s 165 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-و-ت more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times م-و-ت 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 123 of 604 pages (20%)

Densest in juzʾ 4 (15 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 30 pages — pages 223252, juzʾ 1213.

Occurrences · 165 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-و-ت appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root م-و-ت (mwt) occurs 165 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 143 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-و-ت occur?

143 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from م-و-ت (mwt), out of 165 total occurrences.

What words come from the root م-و-ت?

م-و-ت (mwt) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَوْت (mawt, 50×), ماتَ (māta, 39×), مَيِّت (mayyit, 38×), أَماتَ (amāta, 21×), and مَيْتَة (maytah, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.