Root

ص-ر-ف

ṣrf·s9-r-f

30 occurrences29 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
صَرَفَṣarafa14—
صَرَّفْṣarraf10—
تَصْرِيفtaṣrīf2—
انصَرَفُānṣarafu1—
مَصْرُوفmaṣrūf1—
مَصْرِفmaṣrif1—
صَرْفṣarf1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-ر-ف

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 Iفَعَلَ15×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • صَرَفَṣarafa14
    • مَصْرُوفmaṣrūf1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ12×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • صَرَّفْṣarraf10
    • تَصْرِيفtaṣrīf2
  3. Form VIIاِنْفَعَلَ1×

    often passive or resultative · interpretive

    • انصَرَفُānṣarafu1

Covers 28 of this root’s 30 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-ر-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ص-ر-ف falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-ر-ف 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 28 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 7 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 98 pages — pages 507–604, juzʾ 26–30.

Occurrences · 30 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-ر-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-ر-ف (ṣrf) occurs 30 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 29 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-ر-ف occur?

29 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-ر-ف (ṣrf), out of 30 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-ر-ف?

ص-ر-ف (ṣrf) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently صَرَفَ (ṣarafa, 14×), صَرَّفْ (ṣarraf, 10×), تَصْرِيف (taṣrīf, 2×), انصَرَفُ (ānṣarafu, 1×), and مَصْرُوف (maṣrūf, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.