Root l-ʿ-b ل ع ب
The root l-ʿ-b (ل ع ب) occurs 20 times in the Qur'an, the 404th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 13 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 20 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 404th ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 13 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 15 / 5 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 9 / 11 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.762306 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 5:57 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَلْعَبُونَ | verb | 9 | 9 |
| لَعِبٌ | noun | 8 | 6 |
| لَٰعِبِينَ | noun | 3 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَلْعَبُونَ 5×
- وَلَعِبًا 3×
- لَعِبٌ 3×
- لَٰعِبِينَ 2×
- وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ 2×
- لَعِبًا 1×
- وَنَلْعَبُ 1×
- وَيَلْعَبْ 1×
- ٱللَّٰعِبِينَ 1×
- وَلَعِبٌ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 3× · 2.566 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Dukhan 2× · 5.78 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 1× · 1.025 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 1× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 1× · 1.855 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
- ل ه و l-h-w 6 shared verses
- خ و ض kh-w-ḍ 5 shared verses
- د ن و d-n-w 6 shared verses
- ح ي ي ḥ-y-y 6 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 6 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).