Root f-t-n ف ت ن
The root f-t-n (ف ت ن) occurs 60 times in the Qur'an, the 181st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 58 verses across 32 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 60 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 181st ● |
| Verses containing it | 58 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 32 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 34 / 26 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 23 / 37 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.474286 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:102 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| فِتْنَةٌ | noun | 34 | 23 |
| فَتَنَّا | verb | 23 | 17 |
| بِفَٰتِنِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فُتُونًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمَفْتُونُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- فِتْنَةٌ 11×
- فِتْنَةً 10×
- فَتَنَّا 5×
- ٱلْفِتْنَةِ 3×
- ٱلْفِتْنَةَ 3×
- يُفْتَنُونَ 3×
- وَٱلْفِتْنَةُ 2×
- يَفْتِنَكُمُ 1×
- فِتْنَتَهُۥ 1×
- يَفْتِنُوكَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Tawbah 5× · 2.002 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 5× · 3.745 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 4× · 3.244 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 3× · 3.074 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 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
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 11 shared verses
- ب ع ض b-ʿ-ḍ 6 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 6 shared verses
- ق ل ب q-l-b 6 shared verses
- ع ن د ʿ-n-d 6 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 7 shared verses
- ن و س n-w-s 6 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).