Root m-r-y م ر ي
The root m-r-y (م ر ي) occurs 20 times in the Qur'an, the 405th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 19 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 20 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 405th ● |
| Verses containing it | 19 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 17 / 3 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 10 / 10 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.709174 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:147 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| مِرْيَةٍ | noun | 5 | 4 |
| تَمْتَرُونَ | verb | 5 | 5 |
| ٱلْمُمْتَرِينَ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| أَفَتُمَٰرُونَهُۥ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| مِرَآءً | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تُمَارِ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- مِرْيَةٍ 5×
- ٱلْمُمْتَرِينَ 4×
- تَمْتَرُونَ 2×
- يَمْتَرُونَ 2×
- تُمَارِ 1×
- مِرَآءً 1×
- يُمَارُونَ 1×
- تَمْتَرُنَّ 1×
- أَفَتُمَٰرُونَهُۥ 1×
- تَتَمَارَىٰ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Najm 2× · 5.556 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
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 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
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 7 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 8 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).