Root

ن-ز-ل

nzl·n-z-l

293 occurrences257 verses12 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَنزَلَanzala183
نَزَّلَnazzala62
تَنزِيلtanzīl15
نُزُلnuzul8
تَنَزَّلَتْtanazzalat7
نَزَلَnazala6
مُنزِلmunzil5
مُنزَلmunzal2
مَنازِلmanāzil2
مُنَزِّلmunazzil1
مُنَزَّلmunazzal1
نَزْلَةnazlah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ن-ز-ل

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 Iفَعَلَ6×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • نَزَلَnazala6
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ79×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • نَزَّلَnazzala62
    • تَنزِيلtanzīl15
    • مُنَزِّلmunazzil1
    • مُنَزَّلmunazzal1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ190×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَنزَلَanzala183
    • مُنزِلmunzil5
    • مُنزَلmunzal2
  4. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ7×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَنَزَّلَتْtanazzalat7

Covers 282 of this root’s 293 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 ن-ز-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ن-ز-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ز-ل 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 194 of 604 pages (32%)

Densest in juzʾ 6 (22 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 15 pages — pages 583597, juzʾ 3030.

Occurrences · 293 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 ن-ز-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ز-ل (nzl) occurs 293 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 257 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 ن-ز-ل occur?

257 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ز-ل (nzl), out of 293 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ز-ل?

ن-ز-ل (nzl) yields 12 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَنزَلَ (anzala, 183×), نَزَّلَ (nazzala, 62×), تَنزِيل (tanzīl, 15×), نُزُل (nuzul, 8×), and تَنَزَّلَتْ (tanazzalat, 7×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.