Root m-r-a م ر ا
The root m-r-a (م ر ا) occurs 38 times in the Qur'an, the 251st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 37 verses across 22 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 38 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 251st ● |
| Verses containing it | 37 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 22 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 24 / 14 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 38 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.641486 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:102 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱمْرَأَتَهُۥ | noun | 26 | 15 |
| ٱمْرِئٍ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| ٱلْمَرْءُ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| مَّرِيٓـًٔا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| ٱمْرَأَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱمْرُؤٌا۟ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱمْرَأَتُ 4×
- ٱمْرَأَتَهُۥ 4×
- ٱمْرِئٍ 4×
- ٱلْمَرْءِ 2×
- ٱمْرَأَةٌ 2×
- وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ 2×
- ٱمْرَأَتَكَ 2×
- ٱمْرَأَتِى 2×
- ٱمْرَأَتَ 2×
- ٱلْمَرْءُ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 3× · 3.122 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tahrim 3× · 12.048 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 2× · 1.399 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 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
- غ ب ر gh-b-r 5 shared verses
- ن ج و n-j-w 5 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 9 shared verses
- ا ه ل a-h-l 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 17 shared verses
- ك ب ر k-b-r 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 15 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).