Root gh-l-b غ ل ب
The root gh-l-b (غ ل ب) occurs 31 times in the Qur'an, the 294th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 28 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 31 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 294th ● |
| Verses containing it | 28 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 18 / 13 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 15 / 16 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.643958 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:249 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| غَلَبَتْ | verb | 15 | 10 |
| ٱلْغَٰلِبُونَ | noun | 13 | 9 |
| غَلَبِهِمْ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| غُلْبًا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| مَغْلُوبٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْغَٰلِبُونَ 5×
- ٱلْغَٰلِبِينَ 4×
- غَلَبَتْ 2×
- غَالِبَ 2×
- يَغْلِبُوا۟ 2×
- يَغْلِبُوٓا۟ 2×
- سَتُغْلَبُونَ 1×
- يَغْلِبْ 1×
- غَٰلِبُونَ 1×
- فَغُلِبُوا۟ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Anfal 6× · 4.866 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 3× · 2.276 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 3× · 3.672 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 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
- ق و ل q-w-l 12 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 9 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 11 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).