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Root b-ṭ-n ب ط ن

The root b-ṭ-n (ب ط ن) occurs 25 times in the Qur'an, the 346th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 25 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences25 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots346th ●
Verses containing it25 ●
Surahs containing it18 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs15 / 10 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)2 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)12 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)10 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives2 / 23 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.658424 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:174 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
بُطُونِnoun1714
بَاطِنُهُۥnoun32
بَطَنَverb22
بَطَآئِنُهَاnoun22
وَبَاطِنَةًnoun11

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • بُطُونِ 4×
  • بُطُونِهِمْ 3×
  • بَطَنَ 2×
  • بُطُونِهَا 2×
  • ٱلْبُطُونَ 2×
  • بَطْنِى 1×
  • بِطَانَةً 1×
  • وَبَاطِنَهُۥٓ 1×
  • بُطُونِهِۦ 1×
  • بَطْنِهِۦ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Saffat 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Hadid 2× · 3.484 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Mu'minun 1× · 0.952 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order