Root h-z-a ه ز ا
The root h-z-a (ه ز ا) occurs 34 times in the Qur'an, the 269th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 32 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 34 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 269th ● |
| Verses containing it | 32 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 24 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 21 / 13 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.568538 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:14 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ | verb | 21 | 17 |
| هُزُوًا | noun | 11 | 7 |
| مُسْتَهْزِءُونَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ 14×
- هُزُوًا 11×
- ٱسْتُهْزِئَ 3×
- مُسْتَهْزِءُونَ 1×
- يَسْتَهْزِئُ 1×
- وَيُسْتَهْزَأُ 1×
- ٱسْتَهْزِءُوٓا۟ 1×
- تَسْتَهْزِءُونَ 1×
- ٱلْمُسْتَهْزِءِينَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 3× · 2.566 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jathiyah 3× · 6.148 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 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
- ح ي ق ḥ-y-q 8 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 12 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 18 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 10 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 9 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 7 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 13 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).