Root l-b-s ل ب س
The root l-b-s (ل ب س) occurs 23 times in the Qur'an, the 370th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 13 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 23 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 370th ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 13 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 18 / 5 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 11 / 12 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.686531 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:42 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَلْبَسُونَهَا | verb | 11 | 7 |
| لِبَاسًا | noun | 10 | 7 |
| لَبْسٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| لَبُوسٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- لِبَاسًا 3×
- لِبَاسٌ 2×
- تَلْبَسُونَهَا 2×
- وَلِبَاسُهُمْ 2×
- تَلْبِسُوا۟ 1×
- تَلْبِسُونَ 1×
- وَلَلَبَسْنَا 1×
- يَلْبِسُونَ 1×
- يَلْبِسَكُمْ 1×
- يَلْبِسُوٓا۟ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 2× · 2.581 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 1× · 1.12 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
- ح ل ي ḥ-l-y 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).