Root m-l-a م ل ا
The root m-l-a (م ل ا) occurs 40 times in the Qur'an, the 242nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 40 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 40 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 242nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 40 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 38 / 2 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 22 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 7 / 33 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.702031 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:246 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْمَلَأُ | noun | 30 | 12 |
| لَأَمْلَأَنَّ | verb | 6 | 6 |
| فَمَالِـُٔونَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مِّلْءُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱمْتَلَأْتِ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْمَلَأُ 12×
- وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦ 5×
- لَأَمْلَأَنَّ 4×
- ٱلْمَلَؤُا۟ 4×
- ٱلْمَلَإِ 2×
- فَمَالِـُٔونَ 2×
- مِّلْءُ 1×
- وَمَلَإِي۟هِمْ 1×
- وَمَلَأَهُۥ 1×
- مَلَأٌ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 9× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 3× · 2.857 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 3× · 2.606 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- Sad 3× · 4.093 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 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
- ق و ل q-w-l 24 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 15 shared verses
- ت ب ع t-b-ʿ 5 shared verses
- خ ر ج kh-r-j 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 5 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 6 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 6 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).