Root k-r-h ك ر ه
The root k-r-h (ك ر ه) occurs 41 times in the Qur'an, the 237th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 35 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 41 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 237th ● |
| Verses containing it | 35 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 14 / 27 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 23 / 18 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.571435 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:216 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كَرِهَ | verb | 17 | 10 |
| كَٰرِهُونَ | noun | 7 | 6 |
| أَكْرَهْتَنَا | verb | 5 | 4 |
| كَرْهًا | noun | 5 | 5 |
| كُرْهًا | noun | 3 | 2 |
| إِكْرَاهَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَكَرَّهَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| مَكْرُوهًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَرِهَ 8×
- كَٰرِهُونَ 5×
- كَرْهًا 3×
- تَكْرَهُوا۟ 2×
- وَكَرْهًا 2×
- كُرْهًا 2×
- كَرِهُوا۟ 2×
- كُرْهٌ 1×
- إِكْرَاهَ 1×
- كَرِهْتُمُوهُنَّ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Tawbah 7× · 2.802 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 3× · 5.566 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 2× · 3.11 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hujurat 2× · 5.764 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
- ط و ع ṭ-w-ʿ 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 22 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 8 shared verses
- د ي ن d-y-n 5 shared verses
- ك ث ر k-th-r 5 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 7 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 9 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).