Root m-s-k م س ك
The root m-s-k (م س ك) occurs 27 times in the Qur'an, the 334th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 24 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 27 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 334th ● |
| Verses containing it | 24 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 17 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 17 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 22 / 5 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.666755 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:229 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ | verb | 18 | 13 |
| ٱسْتَمْسَكَ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| فَإِمْسَاكٌۢ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مِسْكٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُمْسِكَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُمْسِكَٰتُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُسْتَمْسِكُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يُمَسِّكُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ 3×
- ٱسْتَمْسَكَ 2×
- يُمْسِكُهُنَّ 2×
- أَمْسِكْ 2×
- فَإِمْسَاكٌۢ 1×
- تُمْسِكُوهُنَّ 1×
- أَمْسَكْنَ 1×
- يُمَسِّكُونَ 1×
- أَيُمْسِكُهُۥ 1×
- لَّأَمْسَكْتُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 4× · 5.161 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mulk 2× · 6.006 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 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 ل ه a-l-h 15 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 6 shared verses
- ر ح م r-ḥ-m 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 7 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).