Root b-r-a ب ر ا
The root b-r-a (ب ر ا) occurs 31 times in the Qur'an, the 293rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 28 verses across 20 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 31 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 293rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 28 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 20 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 11 / 20 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 20 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 10 / 21 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.562238 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:54 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بَرِىٓءٌ | noun / adjective | 12 | 9 |
| تَبَرَّأَ | verb | 5 | 3 |
| بَارِئِكُمْ | noun / adjective | 3 | 2 |
| بَرَآءَةٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْبَرِيَّةِ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| أُبَرِّئُ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| وَأُبْرِئُ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| بَرَآءٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُبَرَّءُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَّبْرَأَهَآ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بَرِىٓءٌ 8×
- بَارِئِكُمْ 2×
- تَبَرَّأَ 2×
- بَرَآءَةٌ 2×
- ٱلْبَرِيَّةِ 2×
- فَنَتَبَرَّأَ 1×
- تَبَرَّءُوا۟ 1×
- وَأُبْرِئُ 1×
- بَرِيٓـًٔا 1×
- وَتُبْرِئُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hashr 2× · 4.494 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Bayyinah 2× · 21.277 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 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
- ش ر ك sh-r-k 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 16 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 5 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 14 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 6 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).