Root

س-و-أ

sw·s-w-2

167 occurrences151 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَيِّئَةsayyiʾah58—
سُوءsū50—
ساءَsāʾa30—
سَوْءsaw9—
سَوْءَةsawʾah7—
أَساءَasāʾa5—
سَيِّئsayyi4—
أَسْوَأaswa2—
سُوٓأَىsūʾā1—
مُسِيءmusī1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-و-أ

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 Iفَعَلَ30×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ساءَsāʾa30
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ6×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَساءَasāʾa5
    • مُسِيءmusī1

Covers 36 of this root’s 167 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-و-أ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-و-أ 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 124 of 604 pages (21%)

Densest in juzʾ 24 (17 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 40 pages — pages 565–604, juzʾ 29–30.

Occurrences · 167 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-و-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-و-أ (sw) occurs 167 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 151 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-و-أ occur?

151 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-و-أ (sw), out of 167 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-و-أ?

س-و-أ (sw) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَيِّئَة (sayyiʾah, 58×), سُوء (sū, 50×), ساءَ (sāʾa, 30×), سَوْء (saw, 9×), and سَوْءَة (sawʾah, 7×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.