Root

ط-ع-م

ṭʿm·t9-3-m

48 occurrences41 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
طَعامṭaʿām24—
أَطْعَمَaṭʿama13—
طَعِمُṭaʿimu5—
إِطْعامiṭʿām3—
طاعِمṭāʿim1—
اسْتَطْعَمَāstaṭʿama1—
طَعْمṭaʿm1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ط-ع-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 Iفَعَلَ6×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • طَعِمُṭaʿimu5
    • طاعِمṭāʿim1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ16×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَطْعَمَaṭʿama13
    • إِطْعامiṭʿām3
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَطْعَمَāstaṭʿama1

Covers 23 of this root’s 48 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 ط-ع-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ط-ع-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ط-ع-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 38 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 7 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 91 pages — pages 148–238, juzʾ 8–12.

Occurrences · 48 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 ط-ع-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ط-ع-م (ṭʿm) occurs 48 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 41 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 ط-ع-م occur?

41 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ط-ع-م (ṭʿm), out of 48 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ط-ع-م?

ط-ع-م (ṭʿm) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently طَعام (ṭaʿām, 24×), أَطْعَمَ (aṭʿama, 13×), طَعِمُ (ṭaʿimu, 5×), إِطْعام (iṭʿām, 3×), and طاعِم (ṭāʿim, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.