Root

س-م-و

smw·s-m-w

381 occurrences352 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَماءsamā310
اسْمāsm39
مُسَمًّىmusammanā21
سَمَّىsammā8
سَمِيّsamiyy2
تَسْمِيَةtasmīah1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with س-م-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-م-و 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 244 of 604 pages (40%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (25 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 22 pages — pages 7697, juzʾ 45.

Occurrences · 381 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-م-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-م-و (smw) occurs 381 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 352 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-م-و occur?

352 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-م-و (smw), out of 381 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-م-و?

س-م-و (smw) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَماء (samā, 310×), اسْم (āsm, 39×), مُسَمًّى (musammanā, 21×), سَمَّى (sammā, 8×), and سَمِيّ (samiyy, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.