Root m-sh-y م ش ي
The root m-sh-y (م ش ي) occurs 23 times in the Qur'an, the 371st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 14 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 23 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 371st ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 14 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 18 / 5 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 21 / 2 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.753104 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:20 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَمْشِى | verb | 21 | 13 |
| مَشْيِكَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَّشَّآءٍۭ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَمْشِى 6×
- يَمْشُونَ 5×
- تَمْشِ 2×
- مَّشَوْا۟ 1×
- تَمْشِىٓ 1×
- وَيَمْشِى 1×
- وَيَمْشُونَ 1×
- تَمْشِى 1×
- مَشْيِكَ 1×
- ٱمْشُوا۟ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 3× · 3.359 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mulk 3× · 9.009 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- Luqman 2× · 3.663 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 1× · 0.699 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
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).