Root k-t-b ك ت ب
The root k-t-b (ك ت ب) occurs 319 times in the Qur'an, the 23rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 279 verses across 61 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 319 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 23rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 279 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 61 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 155 / 164 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 43 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 108 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 164 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 51 / 268 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.32298 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:2 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْكِتَٰبَ | noun | 260 | 58 |
| كُتِبَ | verb | 49 | 18 |
| كَاتِبٌ | noun / adjective | 6 | 3 |
| فَكَاتِبُوهُمْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| بِّكِتَٰبِى | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَكْتُوبًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱكْتَتَبَهَا | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْكِتَٰبَ 78×
- ٱلْكِتَٰبِ 77×
- كِتَٰبٌ 16×
- كِتَٰبٍ 15×
- كُتِبَ 13×
- كِتَٰبًا 12×
- ٱلْكِتَٰبُ 8×
- كَتَبَ 8×
- وَٱلْكِتَٰبِ 6×
- كِتَٰبِ 6×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 48× · 7.848 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 36× · 10.342 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 24× · 6.405 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 19× · 6.776 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 15× · 4.918 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 11× · 3.313 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 8× · 5.141 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 8× · 8.325 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 7× · 7.172 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 6× · 7.742 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
- ن ز ل n-z-l 63 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 78 shared verses
- ا ه ل a-h-l 33 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 57 shared verses
- ح ك م ḥ-k-m 31 shared verses
- ت ل و t-l-w 16 shared verses
- ا م م a-m-m 21 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 34 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).