Root l-s-n ل س ن
The root l-s-n (ل س ن) occurs 25 times in the Qur'an, the 351st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 24 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 25 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 351st ● |
| Verses containing it | 24 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 17 / 8 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 25 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.712353 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:78 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِلِسَانِكَ | noun | 25 | 18 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- لِسَانَ 2×
- بِلِسَانِكَ 2×
- أَلْسِنَتَهُم 1×
- بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ 1×
- لِسَانِ 1×
- بِلِسَانِ 1×
- أَلْسِنَتُهُمُ 1×
- لِّسَانُ 1×
- لِسَانٌ 1×
- أَلْسِنَتُكُمُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 3× · 2.276 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 2× · 2.081 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 1× · 0.699 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
- ك و ن k-w-n 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 8 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).