Root

س-و-ي

swy·s-w-y

83 occurrences80 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اسْتَوَىāstawā35—
سَواءsawā27—
سَوَّىsawwā13—
سَوِيّsawiyy5—
تُسَوَّىtusawwā1—
ساوَىsāwā1—
سُوًىsūanā1—

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

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

    • تُسَوَّىtusawwā1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ13×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • سَوَّىsawwā13
  3. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • ساوَىsāwā1
  4. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ35×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اسْتَوَىāstawā35

Covers 50 of this root’s 83 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-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-و-ي 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 74 of 604 pages (12%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 40 pages — pages 18–57, juzʾ 1–3.

Occurrences · 83 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-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-و-ي (swy) occurs 83 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 80 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-ي occur?

80 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-و-ي (swy), out of 83 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-و-ي?

س-و-ي (swy) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اسْتَوَى (āstawā, 35×), سَواء (sawā, 27×), سَوَّى (sawwā, 13×), سَوِيّ (sawiyy, 5×), and تُسَوَّى (tusawwā, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.