Root

ق-و-ل

qwl·q-w-l

1722 occurrences1383 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قالَqāla1618—
قَوْلqawl92—
قائِلqāʾil5—
قِيلqīl4—
تَقَوَّلَtaqawwala2—
أَقاوِيلaqāwīl1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-و-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 Iفَعَلَ1715×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • قالَqāla1618
    • قَوْلqawl92
    • قائِلqāʾil5
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ2×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَقَوَّلَtaqawwala2

Covers 1717 of this root’s 1722 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 ق-و-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ق-و-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-و-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 470 of 604 pages (78%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (105 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 5 pages — pages 404–408, juzʾ 21–21.

Occurrences · 1722 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 ق-و-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-و-ل (qwl) occurs 1722 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 1383 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 ق-و-ل occur?

1383 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-و-ل (qwl), out of 1722 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-و-ل?

ق-و-ل (qwl) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قالَ (qāla, 1618×), قَوْل (qawl, 92×), قائِل (qāʾil, 5×), قِيل (qīl, 4×), and تَقَوَّلَ (taqawwala, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.