Root m-k-r م ك ر
The root m-k-r (م ك ر) occurs 43 times in the Qur'an, the 228th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 23 verses across 14 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 43 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 228th ● |
| Verses containing it | 23 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 14 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 33 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 22 / 21 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.709826 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:54 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَمْكُرُونَ | verb | 22 | 13 |
| مَكْرًا | noun | 19 | 9 |
| ٱلْمَٰكِرِينَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَمْكُرُونَ 6×
- مَكْرًا 4×
- وَمَكَرُوا۟ 3×
- مَكْرُهُمْ 3×
- مَكَرُوا۟ 3×
- ٱلْمَٰكِرِينَ 2×
- مَكْرَ 2×
- مَكَرَ 2×
- ٱلْمَكْرُ 2×
- وَمَكَرَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Naml 6× · 5.213 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 4× · 3.244 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 4× · 4.819 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 4× · 5.161 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 3× · 3.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 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 16 shared verses
- ك ب ر k-b-r 5 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 6 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 8 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).