Root k-sh-f ك ش ف
The root k-sh-f (ك ش ف) occurs 20 times in the Qur'an, the 403rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 14 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 20 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 403rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 14 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 0 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 14 / 6 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.763056 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 6:17 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كَشَفْنَا | verb | 14 | 11 |
| كَاشِفَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| كَشْفَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| كَاشِفَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| كَٰشِفَٰتُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَشَفْنَا 4×
- كَاشِفَ 2×
- فَكَشَفْنَا 2×
- فَيَكْشِفُ 1×
- كَشَفْتَ 1×
- كَشَفَ 1×
- كَشْفَ 1×
- وَكَشَفْنَا 1×
- وَكَشَفَتْ 1×
- وَيَكْشِفُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Dukhan 2× · 5.78 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 1× · 0.952 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 1× · 0.853 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
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 9 shared verses
- د ع و d-ʿ-w 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).