Root gh-r-q غ ر ق
The root gh-r-q (غ ر ق) occurs 23 times in the Qur'an, the 369th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 23 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 23 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 369th ● |
| Verses containing it | 23 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 21 / 2 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 17 / 6 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.698182 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:50 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَغْرَقْنَا | verb | 17 | 14 |
| مُّغْرَقُونَ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| ٱلْغَرَقُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| غَرْقًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَغْرَقْنَا 4×
- فَأَغْرَقْنَٰهُمْ 3×
- مُّغْرَقُونَ 3×
- وَأَغْرَقْنَآ 2×
- وَأَغْرَقْنَا 2×
- ٱلْغَرَقُ 1×
- ٱلْمُغْرَقِينَ 1×
- فَيُغْرِقَكُم 1×
- فَأَغْرَقْنَٰهُ 1×
- لِتُغْرِقَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 1× · 0.952 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
- ك ذ ب k-dh-b 6 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 6 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).