Root k-l-m ك ل م
The root k-l-m (ك ل م) occurs 75 times in the Qur'an, the 146th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 71 verses across 32 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 75 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 146th ● |
| Verses containing it | 71 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 32 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 46 / 29 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 34 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 29 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 24 / 51 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.37245 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:37 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كَلِمَةٌ | noun | 28 | 18 |
| تُكَلِّمَ | verb | 20 | 13 |
| بِكَلِمَٰتِهِۦ | noun | 14 | 9 |
| كَلَٰمَ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| ٱلْكَلِمَ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| تَكَلَّمُ | verb | 4 | 4 |
| تَكْلِيمًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَلِمَةٌ 6×
- كَلِمَتُ 5×
- كَلِمَةُ 4×
- كَلَٰمَ 3×
- ٱلْكَلِمَ 3×
- كَلِمَةَ 3×
- يُكَلِّمُهُمُ 2×
- بِكَلِمَةٍ 2×
- تُكَلِّمَ 2×
- كَلِمَةٍ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 5× · 2.728 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 4× · 2.533 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 4× · 4.651 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 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
- س ب ق s-b-q 6 shared verses
- ن و س n-w-s 11 shared verses
- ب د ل b-d-l 5 shared verses
- ر و ح r-w-ḥ 5 shared verses
- ق ض ي q-ḍ-y 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 21 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 10 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 28 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).