Root

س-ل-م

slm·s-l-m

140 occurrences127 verses15 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَلامsalām42—
مُسْلِمmuslim39—
أَسْلَمَaslama22—
إِسْلامislām8—
سَلَّمَsallama6—
سَلَمsalam5—
مُسَلَّمَةmusallamah3—
مُسْلِمَةmuslimah3—
تَسْلِيمtaslīm3—
سُلَّمsullam2—
سَلْمsalm2—
سَلِيمsalīm2—
سِلْمsilm1—
مُسْتَسْلِمmustaslim1—
سالِمsālim1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-ل-م

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 Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • سالِمsālim1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ12×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • سَلَّمَsallama6
    • مُسَلَّمَةmusallamah3
    • تَسْلِيمtaslīm3
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ72×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُسْلِمmuslim39
    • أَسْلَمَaslama22
    • إِسْلامislām8
    • مُسْلِمَةmuslimah3
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • مُسْتَسْلِمmustaslim1

Covers 86 of this root’s 140 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-ل-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ل-م 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 107 of 604 pages (18%)

Densest in juzʾ 23 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 27 pages — pages 279–305, juzʾ 14–16.

Occurrences · 140 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-ل-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ل-م (slm) occurs 140 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 127 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-ل-م occur?

127 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ل-م (slm), out of 140 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ل-م?

س-ل-م (slm) yields 15 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَلام (salām, 42×), مُسْلِم (muslim, 39×), أَسْلَمَ (aslama, 22×), إِسْلام (islām, 8×), and سَلَّمَ (sallama, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.