Root f-ṣ-l ف ص ل
The root f-ṣ-l (ف ص ل) occurs 43 times in the Qur'an, the 224th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 42 verses across 24 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 43 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 224th ● |
| Verses containing it | 42 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 24 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 37 / 6 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 22 / 21 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.640829 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:233 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| نُفَصِّلُ | verb | 17 | 9 |
| ٱلْفَصْلِ | noun / adjective | 9 | 7 |
| يَفْصِلُ | verb | 5 | 5 |
| وَتَفْصِيلًا | noun | 5 | 5 |
| وَفِصَٰلُهُۥ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| وَفَصِيلَتِهِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْفَٰصِلِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُفَصَّلًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُّفَصَّلَٰتٍ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْفَصْلِ 7×
- نُفَصِّلُ 5×
- فَصَّلْنَا 3×
- فُصِّلَتْ 3×
- يَفْصِلُ 3×
- وَتَفْصِيلًا 2×
- فَصَّلْنَٰهُ 2×
- يُفَصِّلُ 2×
- وَتَفْصِيلَ 2×
- وَفِصَٰلُهُۥ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 8× · 2.623 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mursalat 3× · 16.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 2× · 2.519 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 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 ي ي a-y-y 16 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 16 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 11 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 7 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 11 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 8 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 6 shared verses
- ه د ي h-d-y 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).