Root f-w-q ف و ق
The root f-w-q (ف و ق) occurs 43 times in the Qur'an, the 225th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 41 verses across 27 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 43 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 225th ● |
| Verses containing it | 41 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 27 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 27 / 16 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 1 / 42 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.508587 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:26 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| فَوْقَ | noun / location adverb | 41 | 26 |
| أَفَاقَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| فَوَاقٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- فَوْقَ 7×
- فَوْقَ 6×
- فَوْقِهِمْ 6×
- فَوْقَهُمْ 5×
- فَوْقَكُمُ 2×
- فَوْقِكُمْ 2×
- فَوْقِ 2×
- فَوْقِهِۦ 2×
- فَوْقِهَا 2×
- فَوْقَهَا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 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
- ر ف ع r-f-ʿ 8 shared verses
- ت ح ت t-ḥ-t 5 shared verses
- ب ع ض b-ʿ-ḍ 6 shared verses
- ب ن ي b-n-y 6 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 6 shared verses
- و ق ي w-q-y 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 11 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).