Root gh-w-y غ و ي
The root gh-w-y (غ و ي) occurs 22 times in the Qur'an, the 381st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 18 verses across 11 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 22 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 381st ● |
| Verses containing it | 18 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 11 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 21 / 1 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 11 / 11 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.788185 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:256 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَغْوَيْتَنِى | verb | 8 | 6 |
| ٱلْغَاوِينَ | noun | 6 | 4 |
| ٱلْغَىِّ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| غَوَىٰ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| لَغَوِىٌّ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْغَىِّ 3×
- أَغْوَيْتَنِى 2×
- ٱلْغَاوِينَ 2×
- يُغْوِيَكُمْ 1×
- وَلَأُغْوِيَنَّهُمْ 1×
- غَيًّا 1×
- فَغَوَىٰ 1×
- لِلْغَاوِينَ 1×
- وَٱلْغَاوُۥنَ 1×
- ٱلْغَاوُۥنَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 4× · 2.797 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 3× · 4.58 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 3× · 2.276 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
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- Sad 1× · 1.364 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 و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).