Root l-y-s ل ي س
The root l-y-s (ل ي س) occurs 89 times in the Qur'an, the 125th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 85 verses across 33 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 89 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 125th ● |
| Verses containing it | 85 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 33 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 48 / 41 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 39 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 41 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 89 / 0 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.45002 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:113 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| لَيْسَ | verb | 89 | 33 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- لَيْسَ 38×
- أَلَيْسَ 13×
- لَّيْسَ 9×
- فَلَيْسَ 7×
- وَلَيْسَ 5×
- لَيْسَتِ 2×
- لَسْتَ 2×
- لَّسْتَ 2×
- أَوَلَيْسَ 2×
- وَلَسْتُم 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 8× · 2.623 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 7× · 3.652 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 6× · 4.559 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 5× · 1.334 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 4× · 3.413 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 3× · 3.074 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
- ج ن ح j-n-ḥ 9 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 49 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 27 shared verses
- د و ن d-w-n 9 shared verses
- ا ه ل a-h-l 7 shared verses
- و ك ل w-k-l 5 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 15 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).