Root

و-ص-ي

wṣy·w-s9-y

32 occurrences21 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
وَصَّىwaṣṣā11
وَصِيَّةwaṣiyyah8
أَوْصاawṣā5
تَواصَtawāṣa5
مُوصmūṣ1
يُوصِيyūṣī1
تَوْصِيَةtawṣīah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ص-ي

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 IIفَعَّلَ12×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • وَصَّىwaṣṣā11
    • تَوْصِيَةtawṣīah1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ7×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَوْصاawṣā5
    • مُوصmūṣ1
    • يُوصِيyūṣī1
  3. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ5×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَواصَtawāṣa5

Covers 24 of this root’s 32 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-ص-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-ص-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ص-ي 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 20 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 4 (10 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 157 pages — pages 150306, juzʾ 816.

Occurrences · 32 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-ص-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ص-ي (wṣy) occurs 32 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 21 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-ص-ي occur?

21 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ص-ي (wṣy), out of 32 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ص-ي?

و-ص-ي (wṣy) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently وَصَّى (waṣṣā, 11×), وَصِيَّة (waṣiyyah, 8×), أَوْصا (awṣā, 5×), تَواصَ (tawāṣa, 5×), and مُوص (mūṣ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.