Root k-f-y ك ف ي
The root k-f-y (ك ف ي) occurs 33 times in the Qur'an, the 278th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 32 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 33 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 278th ● |
| Verses containing it | 32 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 15 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 14 / 19 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 32 / 1 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.731065 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:137 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَكَفَىٰ | verb | 32 | 14 |
| بِكَافٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَكَفَىٰ 20×
- كَفَىٰ 5×
- فَسَيَكْفِيكَهُمُ 1×
- يَكْفِيَكُمْ 1×
- فَكَفَىٰ 1×
- كَفَيْنَٰكَ 1×
- يَكْفِهِمْ 1×
- وَكَفَى 1×
- بِكَافٍ 1×
- يَكْفِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 11× · 2.936 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 4× · 2.571 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 4× · 3.108 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 2× · 2.24 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 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
- ش ه د sh-h-d 10 shared verses
- و ك ل w-k-l 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 21 shared verses
- ع ب د ʿ-b-d 6 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 7 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 5 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 5 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).