Root gh-y-r غ ي ر
The root gh-y-r (غ ي ر) occurs 154 times in the Qur'an, the 73rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 146 verses across 46 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 154 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 73rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 146 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 46 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 94 / 60 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 65 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 60 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 5 / 149 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.367382 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِغَيْرِ | noun / adjective | 147 | 45 |
| يُغَيِّرُوا۟ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| مُغَيِّرًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فَٱلْمُغِيرَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يَتَغَيَّرْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بِغَيْرِ 41×
- غَيْرَ 39×
- غَيْرُ 18×
- غَيْرِ 9×
- غَيْرُهُۥٓ 5×
- لِغَيْرِ 4×
- أَفَغَيْرَ 4×
- أَغَيْرَ 4×
- غَيْرُهُۥ 4×
- وَغَيْرَ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 17× · 5.574 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 12× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 11× · 5.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 9× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 7× · 2.496 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 6× · 4.196 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 5× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 5× · 3.925 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
- ا ل ه a-l-h 86 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 22 shared verses
- ح ر م ḥ-r-m 11 shared verses
- ب غ ي b-gh-y 12 shared verses
- ب د ل b-d-l 8 shared verses
- ج ن ح j-n-ḥ 7 shared verses
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 9 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 25 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).