Root b-ṭ-l ب ط ل
The root b-ṭ-l (ب ط ل) occurs 36 times in the Qur'an, the 258th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 34 verses across 24 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 36 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 258th ● |
| Verses containing it | 34 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 24 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 22 / 14 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 5 / 31 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.484393 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:42 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِٱلْبَٰطِلِ | noun | 26 | 21 |
| ٱلْمُبْطِلُونَ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| تُبْطِلُوا۟ | verb | 4 | 4 |
| وَبَطَلَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بِٱلْبَٰطِلِ 9×
- ٱلْبَٰطِلُ 5×
- ٱلْمُبْطِلُونَ 4×
- ٱلْبَٰطِلَ 4×
- بَٰطِلًا 2×
- وَبَٰطِلٌ 2×
- أَفَبِٱلْبَٰطِلِ 2×
- تُبْطِلُوا۟ 1×
- وَبَطَلَ 1×
- وَيُبْطِلَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 3× · 3.074 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 2× · 3.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 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
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 15 shared verses
- ن و س n-w-s 8 shared verses
- م و ل m-w-l 5 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 9 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 5 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 16 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).