Root b-a-s ب ا س
The root b-a-s (ب ا س) occurs 73 times in the Qur'an, the 148th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 70 verses across 33 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 73 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 148th ● |
| Verses containing it | 70 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 33 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 36 / 37 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 37 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 42 / 31 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.409343 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:90 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَبِئْسَ | verb | 40 | 24 |
| بَأْسُنَا | noun | 25 | 15 |
| بِٱلْبَأْسَآءِ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| تَبْتَئِسْ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْبَآئِسَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| بَـِٔيسٍۭ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَبِئْسَ 15×
- فَبِئْسَ 7×
- لَبِئْسَ 5×
- بَأْسُنَا 5×
- بِئْسَ 5×
- وَلَبِئْسَ 4×
- بِئْسَمَا 3×
- بَأْسَنَا 3×
- بَأْسٍ 3×
- بَأْسَ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 7× · 2.108 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 4× · 3.14 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 4× · 3.281 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 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
- ص ي ر ṣ-y-r 11 shared verses
- ا و ي a-w-y 10 shared verses
- م ه د m-h-d 5 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 18 shared verses
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 7 shared verses
- ش د د sh-d-d 7 shared verses
- ن ف ع n-f-ʿ 5 shared verses
- ق ر ي q-r-y 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).