Root f-ḍ-l ف ض ل
The root f-ḍ-l (ف ض ل) occurs 104 times in the Qur'an, the 108th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 92 verses across 32 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 104 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 108th ● |
| Verses containing it | 92 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 32 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 42 / 62 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 30 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 62 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 18 / 86 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.474113 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:47 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| فَضْلِهِۦ | noun | 84 | 29 |
| فَضَّلَ | verb | 17 | 9 |
| تَفْضِيلًا | noun | 2 | 1 |
| يَتَفَضَّلَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- فَضْلِهِۦ 20×
- فَضْلُ 11×
- فَضْلًا 9×
- فَضْلٍ 9×
- ٱلْفَضْلِ 7×
- فَضْلِهِۦٓ 6×
- فَضْلِ 5×
- فَضَّلْنَا 4×
- فَضَّلَ 4×
- ٱلْفَضْلُ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 14× · 3.736 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 11× · 1.799 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 8× · 5.141 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 8× · 6.079 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 5× · 2.002 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hadid 5× · 8.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 4× · 3.475 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 4× · 5.161 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 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 غ ي b-gh-y 18 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 62 shared verses
- ش ك ر sh-k-r 12 shared verses
- ع ظ م ʿ-ẓ-m 15 shared verses
- ر ح م r-ḥ-m 20 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 24 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 21 shared verses
- ف ل ك f-l-k 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).