Root h-w-y ه و ي
The root h-w-y (ه و ي) occurs 38 times in the Qur'an, the 250th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 37 verses across 22 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 38 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 250th ● |
| Verses containing it | 37 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 22 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 26 / 12 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 9 / 29 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.617277 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:87 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَهْوَآءَهُمْ | noun | 17 | 11 |
| هَوَىٰهُ | noun | 11 | 11 |
| تَهْوَىٰٓ | verb | 8 | 6 |
| هَاوِيَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱسْتَهْوَتْهُ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَهْوَآءَهُمْ 7×
- هَوَىٰهُ 6×
- أَهْوَآءَهُم 5×
- أَهْوَآءَ 3×
- تَهْوَىٰٓ 2×
- ٱلْهَوَىٰٓ 2×
- هَوَىٰ 2×
- ٱلْهَوَىٰ 2×
- أَهْوَآءَكُمْ 1×
- ٱسْتَهْوَتْهُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Najm 4× · 11.111 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 2× · 1.399 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jathiyah 2× · 4.098 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 2× · 3.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 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
- ت ب ع t-b-ʿ 22 shared verses
- ض ل ل ḍ-l-l 7 shared verses
- غ ي ر gh-y-r 6 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 7 shared verses
- ه د ي h-d-y 7 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 6 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 11 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).