Root k-y-f ك ي ف
The root k-y-f (ك ي ف) occurs 83 times in the Qur'an, the 134th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 83 verses across 37 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 83 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 134th ● |
| Verses containing it | 83 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 37 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 61 / 22 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 36 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 22 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 83 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.445444 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:28 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كَيْفَ | interrogative particle / noun | 83 | 37 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَيْفَ 59×
- فَكَيْفَ 16×
- وَكَيْفَ 5×
- كَيْفَ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 4× · 4.896 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 4× · 11.696 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ghashiyah 4× · 43.478 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 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 ظ ر n-ẓ-r 36 shared verses
- ع ق ب ʿ-q-b 23 shared verses
- س ي ر s-y-r 12 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 38 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 15 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 18 shared verses
- ك ذ ب k-dh-b 13 shared verses
- ض ر ب ḍ-r-b 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).