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Root j-n-n ج ن ن

The root j-n-n (ج ن ن) occurs 201 times in the Qur'an, the 47th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 196 verses across 70 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences201 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots47th ●
Verses containing it196 ●
Surahs containing it70 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs137 / 64 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)12 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)47 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)78 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)64 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives1 / 200 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.344419 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:25 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
جَنَّٰتٍnoun / proper noun14765
ٱلْجِنِّnoun2211
لَمَجْنُونٌnoun119
ٱلْجِنَّةِnoun107
جَآنٌّnoun74
جُنَّةًnoun22
أَجِنَّةٌnoun11
جَنَّverb11

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • جَنَّٰتٍ 37×
  • ٱلْجَنَّةِ 26×
  • ٱلْجَنَّةَ 18×
  • ٱلْجِنِّ 15×
  • جَنَّٰتِ 11×
  • جَنَّٰتُ 9×
  • ٱلْجَنَّةُ 6×
  • جَنَّٰتٌ 5×
  • جَآنٌّ 5×
  • وَجَنَّٰتٍ 4×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-A'raf 13× · 3.916 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Kahf 8× · 5.066 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Saba 8× · 9.06 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Rahman 8× · 22.792 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-An'am 7× · 2.295 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Shu'ara 6× · 4.552 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Ma'idah 5× · 1.783 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order