Root k-l-l ك ل ل
The root k-l-l (ك ل ل) occurs 377 times in the Qur'an, the 17th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 355 verses across 74 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 377 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 17th ● |
| Verses containing it | 355 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 74 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 242 / 135 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 74 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 161 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 135 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 377 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.184831 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:20 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كُلِّ | noun / time adverb | 359 | 73 |
| كُلَّمَا | time adverb | 15 | 11 |
| كَلَٰلَةً | noun | 2 | 1 |
| كَلٌّ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كُلِّ 123×
- كُلَّ 48×
- كُلُّ 47×
- بِكُلِّ 33×
- كُلٌّ 22×
- لِّكُلِّ 13×
- لِكُلِّ 12×
- وَكُلًّا 9×
- كُلَّمَا 7×
- كُلَّمَآ 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 25× · 4.088 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 24× · 7.869 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 18× · 4.804 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 15× · 4.518 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 13× · 3.735 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 12× · 9.419 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 11× · 5.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 11× · 5.965 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 10× · 11.723 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 10× · 6.427 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 ي ا sh-y-a 135 shared verses
- ق د ر q-d-r 45 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 62 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 50 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 41 shared verses
- ن ب ت n-b-t 11 shared verses
- ا م م a-m-m 23 shared verses
- م ل ك m-l-k 31 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).