Root m-l-k م ل ك
The root m-l-k (م ل ك) occurs 206 times in the Qur'an, the 45th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 191 verses across 63 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 206 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 45th ● |
| Verses containing it | 191 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 63 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 122 / 84 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 34 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 80 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 84 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 44 / 162 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.289043 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:4 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ | noun | 88 | 37 |
| مُلْكُ | noun | 48 | 26 |
| مَلَكَتْ | verb | 44 | 27 |
| ٱلْمَلِكُ | noun / adjective | 15 | 10 |
| مَلَكُوتُ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| مَٰلِكَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| يَٰمَٰلِكُ | proper noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَلِيكٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| بِمَلْكِنَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَّمْلُوكًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ 21×
- مُلْكُ 19×
- مَلَكَتْ 15×
- وَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ 10×
- ٱلْمُلْكُ 10×
- يَمْلِكُونَ 10×
- لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ 9×
- ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ 9×
- ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ 8×
- يَمْلِكُ 8×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 20× · 3.27 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 13× · 3.735 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 10× · 2.669 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 9× · 3.21 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 9× · 2.951 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 9× · 10.078 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 8× · 4.338 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 8× · 5.141 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 7× · 3.939 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 7× · 8.434 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
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 47 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 41 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 101 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 80 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 39 shared verses
- ي م ن y-m-n 14 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 31 shared verses
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 12 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).