Root l-y-l ل ي ل
The root l-y-l (ل ي ل) occurs 92 times in the Qur'an, the 122nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 81 verses across 49 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 92 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 122nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 81 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 49 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 74 / 18 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 44 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 92 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.453756 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:51 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلَّيْلِ | noun / time adverb | 84 | 48 |
| لَيْلَةً | noun / time adverb | 8 | 4 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلَّيْلِ 30×
- ٱلَّيْلَ 25×
- وَٱلَّيْلِ 7×
- بِٱلَّيْلِ 6×
- ٱلَّيْلُ 4×
- لَيْلَةً 3×
- لَيْلًا 3×
- لَيَالٍ 2×
- لَيْلًا 2×
- لَيْلَةُ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 5× · 3.213 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Muzzammil 4× · 20.101 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 3× · 2.566 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 3× · 2.56 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
- ن ه ر n-h-r 42 shared verses
- ش م س sh-m-s 12 shared verses
- ق م ر q-m-r 10 shared verses
- س خ ر s-kh-r 8 shared verses
- س ر ي s-r-y 5 shared verses
- و ل ج w-l-j 5 shared verses
- س ب ح s-b-ḥ 9 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 16 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).