Derived forms
| Form | Translit | Count | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| اصْطَفَى | āṣṭafā | 12 | — |
| أَصْفَى | aṣfā | 2 | — |
| صَفْوان | ṣafwān | 1 | — |
| مُصْطَفَيْن | muṣṭafayn | 1 | — |
| مُصَفًّى | muṣaffanā | 1 | — |
Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-ف-و
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.
- Form IIفَعَّلَ1×
often intensive or causative · interpretive
- مُصَفًّىmuṣaffanā1
- Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×
often causative — to make it happen · interpretive
- أَصْفَىaṣfā2
- Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ13×
often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive
- اصْطَفَىāṣṭafā12
- مُصْطَفَيْنmuṣṭafayn1
Covers 16 of this root’s 17 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 ص-ف-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →
Word path · where ص-ف-و falls in the muṣḥaf
Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-ف-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.
Densest in juzʾ 3 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 117 pages — pages 169–285, juzʾ 9–15.
Occurrences · 17 in mushaf order
ٱصْطَفَيْنَٰهُ
ٱصْطَفَىٰ
ٱصْطَفَىٰهُ
صَفْوَانٍ
ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ
ٱصْطَفَىٰكِ · وَٱصْطَفَىٰكِ
ٱصْطَفَيْتُكَ
أَفَأَصْفَىٰكُمْ
يَصْطَفِى
ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ
ٱصْطَفَيْنَا
أَصْطَفَى
ٱلْمُصْطَفَيْنَ
لَّٱصْطَفَىٰ
وَأَصْفَىٰكُم
مُّصَفًّى
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 →