Root

و-س-ط

wsṭ·w-s-t9

5 occurrences5 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَوْسَطawsaṭ2—
وَسَطwasaṭ1—
وُسْطَىwusṭā1—
وَسَطْwasaṭ1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with و-س-ط more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-س-ط falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-س-ط 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 5 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 442 pages — pages 123–564, juzʾ 7–29.

Occurrences · 5 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-س-ط appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-س-ط (wsṭ) occurs 5 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 5 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-س-ط occur?

5 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-س-ط (wsṭ), out of 5 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-س-ط?

و-س-ط (wsṭ) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَوْسَط (awsaṭ, 2×), وَسَط (wasaṭ, 1×), وُسْطَى (wusṭā, 1×), and وَسَطْ (wasaṭ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.