Root k-w-n ك و ن
The root k-w-n (ك و ن) occurs 1,390 times in the Qur'an, the 3rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 1,176 verses across 86 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 1,390 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 3rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 1,176 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 86 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 920 / 470 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 307 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 586 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 470 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 1,358 / 32 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.18517 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:10 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كَانَ | verb | 1,358 | 86 |
| مَكَانًا | noun / location adverb | 27 | 15 |
| مَكَانَتِكُمْ | noun | 5 | 4 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَانَ 323×
- كَانُوا۟ 210×
- كُنتُمْ 152×
- وَكَانَ 84×
- كُنَّا 62×
- كُنتُم 36×
- كُنتَ 35×
- وَكَانُوا۟ 30×
- يَكُن 24×
- كَانَتْ 23×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 114× · 30.424 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 78× · 12.753 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 74× · 22.289 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 64× · 20.984 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 55× · 15.8 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 50× · 27.278 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 44× · 28.278 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 43× · 44.745 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 42× · 32.634 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 38× · 28.832 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
- ص د ق ṣ-d-q 73 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 369 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 105 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 110 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 441 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 197 shared verses
- ن ب ا n-b-a 58 shared verses
- ش ه د sh-h-d 50 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).