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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).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences38 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots251st ●
Verses containing it37 ●
Surahs containing it22 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs24 / 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 adjectives0 / 38 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.641486 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:102 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
ٱمْرَأَتَهُۥnoun2615
ٱمْرِئٍnoun55
ٱلْمَرْءُnoun44
مَّرِيٓـًٔاadjective11
ٱمْرَأَnoun11
ٱمْرُؤٌا۟noun11

● 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

  1. al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Maryam 3× · 3.122 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Tahrim 3× · 12.048 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Qasas 2× · 1.399 per 1,000 word-units
  10. 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order