Root b-r-r ب ر ر
The root b-r-r (ب ر ر) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 282nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 30 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 32 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 282nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 30 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 18 / 14 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 30 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.676591 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:44 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْبَرِّ | noun / adjective | 22 | 15 |
| ٱلْبِرَّ | noun | 8 | 4 |
| تَبَرُّوا۟ | verb | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْبَرِّ 12×
- ٱلْبِرَّ 4×
- ٱلْأَبْرَارَ 3×
- بِٱلْبِرِّ 2×
- ٱلْأَبْرَارِ 2×
- وَبَرًّۢا 2×
- ٱلْبِرُّ 1×
- تَبَرُّوا۟ 1×
- لِّلْأَبْرَارِ 1×
- ٱلْبِرِّ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 2× · 2.081 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mutaffifin 2× · 11.834 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 1× · 0.869 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 1× · 1.025 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
- ب ح ر b-ḥ-r 9 shared verses
- ن ج و n-j-w 6 shared verses
- و ق ي w-q-y 7 shared verses
- د ع و d-ʿ-w 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 13 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).