Root k-th-r ك ث ر
The root k-th-r (ك ث ر) occurs 167 times in the Qur'an, the 64th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 162 verses across 51 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 167 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 64th ● |
| Verses containing it | 162 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 51 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 103 / 64 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 37 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 62 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 64 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 8 / 159 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.283036 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:26 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَكْثَرَ | noun / adjective | 80 | 36 |
| كَثِيرًا | noun / adjective | 63 | 27 |
| كَثِيرَةٌ | adjective | 11 | 8 |
| تَسْتَكْثِرُ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| كَثْرَةُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| كَثُرَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| وَتَكَاثُرٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| فَكَثَّرَكُمْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْكَوْثَرَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَثِيرًا 26×
- أَكْثَرَ 23×
- كَثِيرًا 20×
- أَكْثَرَهُمْ 15×
- أَكْثَرُهُمْ 11×
- أَكْثَرُهُم 11×
- كَثِيرٍ 7×
- وَكَثِيرٌ 6×
- أَكْثَرُ 6×
- كَثِيرَةٌ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ma'idah 15× · 5.35 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 10× · 7.587 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 9× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 7× · 2.295 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 6× · 3.376 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 5× · 5.599 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 5× · 6.12 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 و س n-w-s 37 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 83 shared verses
- ف س ق f-s-q 11 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 42 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 41 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 20 shared verses
- ظ ن ن ẓ-n-n 7 shared verses
- ك ر ه k-r-h 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).