Root

ص-م-م

ṣmm·s9-m-m

15 occurrences14 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَصَمّaṣamm12
صَمُّṣammu2
أَصَمَّaṣamma1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-م-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 Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • صَمُّṣammu2
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَصَمَّaṣamma1

Covers 3 of this root’s 15 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-م-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ص-م-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-م-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 14 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 6 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 95 pages — pages 510604, juzʾ 2630.

Occurrences · 15 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 ص-م-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-م-م (ṣmm) occurs 15 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 14 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 ص-م-م occur?

14 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-م-م (ṣmm), out of 15 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-م-م?

ص-م-م (ṣmm) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَصَمّ (aṣamm, 12×), صَمُّ (ṣammu, 2×), and أَصَمَّ (aṣamma, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.