Root

س-أ-ل

sʾl·s-2-l

129 occurrences118 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَأَلَsaʾala106
يَتَساءَلُyatasāʾalu9
سائِلsāʾil7
مَسْئُولmasʾūl5
سُؤْلsuʾl1
سُؤالsuʾāl1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-أ-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 Iفَعَلَ118×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • سَأَلَsaʾala106
    • سائِلsāʾil7
    • مَسْئُولmasʾūl5
  2. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ9×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • يَتَساءَلُyatasāʾalu9

Covers 127 of this root’s 129 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 س-أ-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-أ-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 98 of 604 pages (16%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (10 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 30 pages — pages 4776, juzʾ 34.

Occurrences · 129 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 س-أ-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-أ-ل (sʾl) occurs 129 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 118 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 س-أ-ل occur?

118 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-أ-ل (sʾl), out of 129 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-أ-ل?

س-أ-ل (sʾl) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَأَلَ (saʾala, 106×), يَتَساءَلُ (yatasāʾalu, 9×), سائِل (sāʾil, 7×), مَسْئُول (masʾūl, 5×), and سُؤْل (suʾl, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.