Root b-q-y ب ق ي
The root b-q-y (ب ق ي) occurs 21 times in the Qur'an, the 388th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 21 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 21 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 388th ● |
| Verses containing it | 21 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 18 / 3 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 4 / 17 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.737325 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:248 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَأَبْقَىٰٓ | noun | 7 | 4 |
| أَبْقَىٰ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| بَقِيَّةٍ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| بَاقِيَةً | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْبَاقِينَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَٱلْبَٰقِيَٰتُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| بَاقٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تُبْقِى | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَأَبْقَىٰٓ 4×
- وَأَبْقَىٰ 3×
- وَٱلْبَٰقِيَٰتُ 2×
- ٱلْبَاقِينَ 2×
- وَبَقِيَّةٌ 1×
- بَقِىَ 1×
- بَقِيَّتُ 1×
- بَقِيَّةٍ 1×
- بَاقٍ 1×
- بَاقِيَةً 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Taha 4× · 2.996 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 1× · 0.759 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 1× · 0.699 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 1× · 1.163 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 1× · 1.163 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
- خ ي ر kh-y-r 8 shared verses
- ع ن د ʿ-n-d 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 8 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 7 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).