Root f-r-q ف ر ق
The root f-r-q (ف ر ق) occurs 72 times in the Qur'an, the 153rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 66 verses across 30 of the 114 surahs, as 14 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 72 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 153rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 66 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 30 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 30 / 42 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 20 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 42 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 23 / 49 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.424056 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:50 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| فَرِيقٌ | noun | 33 | 18 |
| نُفَرِّقُ | verb | 9 | 6 |
| تَفَرَّقُوا۟ | verb | 8 | 6 |
| ٱلْفُرْقَانَ | noun | 7 | 5 |
| فَرَقْنَا | verb | 5 | 5 |
| فِرَاقُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| فَارِقُوهُنَّ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| فَٱلْفَٰرِقَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فَرْقًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فِرْقٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فِرْقَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُّتَفَرِّقَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- فَرِيقٌ 12×
- فَرِيقًا 10×
- وَفَرِيقًا 3×
- نُفَرِّقُ 3×
- ٱلْفُرْقَانَ 3×
- ٱلْفَرِيقَيْنِ 3×
- تَفَرَّقُوا۟ 2×
- يُفَرِّقُوا۟ 2×
- فَرَّقُوا۟ 2×
- فَرَقْنَا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 14× · 2.289 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 4× · 4.651 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 3× · 2.433 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 3× · 3.672 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 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 ي ن b-y-n 20 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 13 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 20 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 11 shared verses
- ا ح د a-ḥ-d 5 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 13 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 8 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 31 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).