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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).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences25 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots351st ●
Verses containing it24 ●
Surahs containing it18 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs17 / 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 adjectives0 / 25 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.712353 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence3:78 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
بِلِسَانِكَnoun2518

● 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

  1. al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Shu'ara 3× · 2.276 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Maryam 2× · 2.081 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
  10. 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order