Root f-s-q ف س ق
The root f-s-q (ف س ق) occurs 54 times in the Qur'an, the 195th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 54 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 54 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 195th ● |
| Verses containing it | 54 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 23 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 34 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 34 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 10 / 44 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.548414 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:26 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْفَٰسِقِينَ | noun / adjective | 37 | 18 |
| يَفْسُقُونَ | verb | 10 | 9 |
| فُسُوقٌۢ | noun | 4 | 2 |
| فِسْقًا | noun | 3 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْفَٰسِقُونَ 9×
- ٱلْفَٰسِقِينَ 7×
- فَٰسِقُونَ 7×
- فَٰسِقِينَ 6×
- يَفْسُقُونَ 5×
- ٱلْفَٰسِقِينَ 4×
- فُسُوقَ 1×
- فُسُوقٌۢ 1×
- فِسْقٌ 1×
- لَفَٰسِقُونَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ma'idah 8× · 2.853 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 7× · 2.802 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hujurat 3× · 8.646 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hadid 3× · 5.226 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Sajdah 2× · 5.376 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
- ق و م q-w-m 21 shared verses
- ك ث ر k-th-r 11 shared verses
- ر ض و r-ḍ-w 7 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 23 shared verses
- غ ي ر gh-y-r 6 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 8 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 7 shared verses
- ط و ع ṭ-w-ʿ 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).