Root gh-n-y غ ن ي
The root gh-n-y (غ ن ي) occurs 73 times in the Qur'an, the 150th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 72 verses across 44 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 73 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 150th ● |
| Verses containing it | 72 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 44 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 46 / 27 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 47 / 26 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.467137 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:263 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يُغْنِى | verb | 28 | 21 |
| ٱلْغَنِىُّ | noun / adjective | 24 | 18 |
| أَغْنَىٰ | verb | 15 | 13 |
| وَٱسْتَغْنَىٰ | verb | 4 | 4 |
| مُّغْنُونَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يُغْنِى 10×
- أَغْنَىٰ 9×
- ٱلْغَنِىُّ 7×
- غَنِىٌّ 4×
- تُغْنِىَ 4×
- غَنِيًّا 3×
- يَغْنَوْا۟ 3×
- تُغْنِ 3×
- غَنِىٌّ 3×
- أَغْنِيَآءُ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Najm 3× · 8.333 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 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
- ف ق ر f-q-r 7 shared verses
- ح م د ḥ-m-d 10 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 22 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 43 shared verses
- م و ل m-w-l 8 shared verses
- ك س ب k-s-b 6 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 10 shared verses
- و ل د w-l-d 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).