Root b-gh-y ب غ ي
The root b-gh-y (ب غ ي) occurs 96 times in the Qur'an, the 119th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 90 verses across 41 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 96 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 119th ● |
| Verses containing it | 90 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 41 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 55 / 41 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 20 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 33 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 41 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 65 / 31 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.351478 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:90 ● |
Counts from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus v0.4 root field. Period and Meccan/Medinan splits depend on a classification; the spread measure is one of several (Numbers).
Lemmas
| Most common form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَبْتَغُونَ | verb | 34 | 22 |
| يَبْغُونَ | verb | 25 | 17 |
| ٱبْتِغَآءَ | noun | 14 | 9 |
| بَغْيًۢا | noun | 11 | 8 |
| يَنۢبَغِى | verb | 6 | 5 |
| بَاغٍ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| بَغِيًّا | noun | 2 | 1 |
| ٱلْبِغَآءِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱبْتِغَآءَ 10×
- يَبْتَغُونَ 6×
- يَنۢبَغِى 6×
- بَغْيًۢا 4×
- يَبْغُونَ 4×
- وَلِتَبْتَغُوا۟ 4×
- بَاغٍ 3×
- وَيَبْغُونَهَا 3×
- بَغْيًا 2×
- وَٱبْتَغُوا۟ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 6× · 3.856 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 5× · 3.497 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 4× · 4.651 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
● The ten surahs with the most occurrences, with the rate per 1,000 of each surah's word-units.
Roots it keeps company with
- ف ض ل f-ḍ-l 18 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 55 shared verses
- ر ض و r-ḍ-w 11 shared verses
- ع و ج ʿ-w-j 5 shared verses
- ل ح م l-ḥ-m 5 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 13 shared verses
- ف ل ك f-l-k 6 shared verses
- غ ي ر gh-y-r 12 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).