Root l-q-y ل ق ي
The root l-q-y (ل ق ي) occurs 146 times in the Qur'an, the 77th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 135 verses across 53 of the 114 surahs, as 16 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 146 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 77th ● |
| Verses containing it | 135 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 53 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 110 / 36 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 53 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 54 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 36 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 105 / 41 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.384478 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:14 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَلْقُوا۟ | verb | 71 | 30 |
| لِقَآءَ | noun | 24 | 13 |
| لَقُوا۟ | verb | 14 | 10 |
| ٱلْتَقَى | verb | 7 | 4 |
| يُلَقَّىٰهَآ | verb | 6 | 5 |
| مُّلَٰقُوا۟ | noun | 4 | 2 |
| تَلَقَّوْنَهُۥ | verb | 4 | 4 |
| مُّلْقُونَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| تِلْقَآءَ | noun / location adverb | 3 | 3 |
| يُلَٰقُوا۟ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| فَمُلَٰقِيهِ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| لَٰقِيهِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- لِقَآءَ 7×
- بِلِقَآءِ 6×
- وَأَلْقَيْنَا 4×
- أَلْقُوا۟ 4×
- لِقَآءَنَا 4×
- مُّلَٰقُوا۟ 3×
- ٱلْتَقَى 3×
- فَأَلْقَىٰ 3×
- أَلْقَى 3×
- يُلْقِى 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 11× · 3.313 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 10× · 7.491 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 8× · 4.364 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 7× · 5.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 6× · 4.196 per 1,000 word-units
- Qaf 6× · 16.086 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 5× · 4.055 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 5× · 5.599 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
- ع ص و ʿ-ṣ-w 8 shared verses
- ر ج و r-j-w 7 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 24 shared verses
- س ح ر s-ḥ-r 9 shared verses
- و ح ي w-ḥ-y 7 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 8 shared verses
- ح ي ي ḥ-y-y 9 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).