Root l-ʿ-n ل ع ن
The root l-ʿ-n (ل ع ن) occurs 41 times in the Qur'an, the 238th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 36 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 41 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 238th ● |
| Verses containing it | 36 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 11 / 30 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 30 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 23 / 18 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.555826 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:88 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| لَعَنَهُمُ | verb | 23 | 10 |
| لَعْنَةً | noun | 14 | 10 |
| لَعْنًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱللَّٰعِنُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمَلْعُونَةَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَّلْعُونِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- لَعَنَهُمُ 3×
- لَعْنَةً 3×
- لَّعَنَهُمُ 2×
- لَعْنَةُ 2×
- لَّعَنَهُ 2×
- ٱللَّعْنَةُ 2×
- فَلَعْنَةُ 1×
- يَلْعَنُهُمُ 1×
- وَيَلْعَنُهُمُ 1×
- ٱللَّٰعِنُونَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 5× · 3.885 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 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
- ا ل ه a-l-h 24 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 10 shared verses
- د ن و d-n-w 5 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 8 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 7 shared verses
- ن و ر n-w-r 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 7 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 11 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).