Root gh-f-l غ ف ل
The root gh-f-l (غ ف ل) occurs 35 times in the Qur'an, the 264th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 35 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 35 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 264th ● |
| Verses containing it | 35 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 27 / 8 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 33 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.530922 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:74 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِغَٰفِلٍ | noun | 27 | 14 |
| غَفْلَةٍ | noun | 5 | 4 |
| أَغْفَلْنَا | verb | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْغَٰفِلَٰتِ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| تَغْفُلُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بِغَٰفِلٍ 9×
- غَٰفِلُونَ 6×
- غَفْلَةٍ 5×
- غَٰفِلِينَ 4×
- لَغَٰفِلِينَ 2×
- ٱلْغَٰفِلُونَ 2×
- ٱلْغَٰفِلِينَ 2×
- تَغْفُلُونَ 1×
- لَغَٰفِلُونَ 1×
- غَٰفِلًا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 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
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 11 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 16 shared verses
- د ن و d-n-w 5 shared verses
- ب ص ر b-ṣ-r 5 shared verses
- ق ل ب q-l-b 5 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 7 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).