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Root f-r-y ف ر ي

The root f-r-y (ف ر ي) occurs 60 times in the Qur'an, the 180th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 54 verses across 24 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences60 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots180th ●
Verses containing it54 ●
Surahs containing it24 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs53 / 7 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)0 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)10 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)43 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)7 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives51 / 9 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.568338 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence3:24 ●

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
يَفْتَرُونَverb5022
مُفْتَرُونَnoun22
مُّفْتَرًىnoun22
ٱفْتِرَآءًnoun21
فَرِيًّاadjective11
مُفْتَرٍۭnoun11
مُفْتَرَيَٰتٍnoun11
يَفْتَرِينَهُۥverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • يَفْتَرُونَ 17×
  • ٱفْتَرَىٰ 13×
  • ٱفْتَرَىٰهُ 7×
  • ٱفْتِرَآءً 2×
  • يُفْتَرَىٰ 2×
  • تَفْتَرُونَ 2×
  • ٱفْتَرَيْتُهُۥ 2×
  • مُّفْتَرًى 2×
  • ٱفْتَرَىٰٓ 1×
  • ٱفْتَرَيْنَا 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-An'am 9× · 2.951 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Yunus 7× · 3.819 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Hud 7× · 3.652 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Nahl 6× · 3.254 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Ahqaf 3× · 4.666 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Qasas 2× · 1.399 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