Root f-ḥ-sh ف ح ش
The root f-ḥ-sh (ف ح ش) occurs 24 times in the Qur'an, the 360th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 23 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 24 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 360th ● |
| Verses containing it | 23 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 15 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 13 / 11 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 24 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.601348 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:169 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِفَٰحِشَةٍ | noun | 17 | 12 |
| بِٱلْفَحْشَآءِ | noun | 7 | 6 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- فَٰحِشَةً 4×
- ٱلْفَٰحِشَةَ 4×
- بِفَٰحِشَةٍ 4×
- بِٱلْفَحْشَآءِ 3×
- ٱلْفَوَٰحِشَ 2×
- ٱلْفَحْشَآءِ 2×
- وَٱلْفَوَٰحِشَ 2×
- وَٱلْفَحْشَآءِ 1×
- وَٱلْفَحْشَآءَ 1×
- ٱلْفَٰحِشَةُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 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
- ن س و n-s-w 5 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 12 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 9 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 15 shared verses
- غ ف ر gh-f-r 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).