Root

و-د-د

wdd·w-d-d

29 occurrences28 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
وَدَّwadda17
مَوَدَّةmawaddah8
وَدُودwadūd2
وُدّwudd1
وَدّwadd1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-د-د

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 Iفَعَلَ16×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • وَدَّwadda16
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • وَدَّwadda1

Covers 17 of this root’s 29 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 و-د-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-د-د falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-د-د 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 27 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 28 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 86 pages — pages 313398, juzʾ 1620.

Occurrences · 29 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 و-د-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-د-د (wdd) occurs 29 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 28 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 و-د-د occur?

28 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-د-د (wdd), out of 29 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-د-د?

و-د-د (wdd) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently وَدَّ (wadda, 17×), مَوَدَّة (mawaddah, 8×), وَدُود (wadūd, 2×), وُدّ (wudd, 1×), and وَدّ (wadd, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.