Root gh-sh-w غ ش و
The root gh-sh-w (غ ش و) occurs 29 times in the Qur'an, the 309th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 26 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 29 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 309th ● |
| Verses containing it | 26 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 23 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 22 / 7 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 23 / 6 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.671219 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَغْشَىٰ | verb | 13 | 11 |
| يُغْشِى | verb | 4 | 4 |
| غَشَّىٰ | verb | 3 | 2 |
| غَوَاشٍ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| غِشَٰوَةً | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَٱسْتَغْشَوْا۟ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْمَغْشِىِّ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَغَشَّىٰهَا | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَغْشَىٰ 3×
- يُغْشِى 2×
- يَغْشَى 2×
- غِشَٰوَةٌ 1×
- غَوَاشٍ 1×
- تَغَشَّىٰهَا 1×
- يُغَشِّيكُمُ 1×
- أُغْشِيَتْ 1×
- يَسْتَغْشُونَ 1×
- غَٰشِيَةٌ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Najm 4× · 11.111 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 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
- ل ي ل l-y-l 5 shared verses
- ق ل ب q-l-b 5 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 6 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).