Root f-l-k ف ل ك
The root f-l-k (ف ل ك) occurs 25 times in the Qur'an, the 347th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 25 verses across 20 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 25 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 347th ● |
| Verses containing it | 25 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 20 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 23 / 2 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 25 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.661436 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:164 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْفُلْكِ | noun | 23 | 19 |
| فَلَكٍ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْفُلْكِ 11×
- ٱلْفُلْكَ 8×
- فَلَكٍ 2×
- ٱلْفُلْكُ 2×
- وَٱلْفُلْكِ 1×
- وَٱلْفُلْكَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Mu'minun 3× · 2.857 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- Yasin 2× · 2.759 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 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
- س خ ر s-kh-r 6 shared verses
- ج ر ي j-r-y 7 shared verses
- ش ك ر sh-k-r 6 shared verses
- ن ج و n-j-w 6 shared verses
- ب غ ي b-gh-y 6 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 9 shared verses
- ف ض ل f-ḍ-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).