Root f-ʿ-l ف ع ل
The root f-ʿ-l (ف ع ل) occurs 108 times in the Qur'an, the 105th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 102 verses across 44 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 108 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 105th ● |
| Verses containing it | 102 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 44 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 63 / 45 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 43 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 45 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 88 / 20 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.371153 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:24 ● |
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 form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَفْعَلُونَ | verb | 88 | 40 |
| فَٰعِلِينَ | noun | 9 | 5 |
| مَفْعُولًا | noun | 7 | 5 |
| فَعَّالٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| فَعْلَتَكَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فِعْلَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَفْعَلُونَ 13×
- تَفْعَلُوا۟ 8×
- يَفْعَلُ 8×
- يَفْعَلْ 7×
- فَعَلَ 7×
- فَٰعِلِينَ 6×
- تَفْعَلُونَ 6×
- مَفْعُولًا 5×
- فَعَلُوهُ 5×
- فَعَلُوا۟ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 9× · 7.699 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 6× · 4.552 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 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-A'raf 3× · 0.904 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
- ا م ر a-m-r 16 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 15 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 20 shared verses
- ب ل غ b-l-gh 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 48 shared verses
- ا ب و a-b-w 8 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 34 shared verses
- ب ع ض b-ʿ-ḍ 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).