Root m-s-s م س س
The root m-s-s (م س س) occurs 61 times in the Qur'an, the 178th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 57 verses across 29 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 61 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 178th ● |
| Verses containing it | 57 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 29 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 43 / 18 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 28 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 58 / 3 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.47026 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:80 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| مَسَّ | verb | 56 | 26 |
| مَسَّ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| يَتَمَآسَّا | verb | 2 | 1 |
| مِسَاسَ | imperative verbal noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- مَسَّ 6×
- مَسَّهُ 4×
- تَمَسُّوهُنَّ 3×
- يَمْسَسْكَ 3×
- تَمَسُّوهَا 3×
- مَسَّنِىَ 3×
- تَمَسَّنَا 2×
- يَمْسَسْنِى 2×
- يَمَسُّهُمُ 2×
- لَمَسَّكُمْ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 3× · 2.56 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 3× · 3.778 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 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
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 17 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 14 shared verses
- س و ا s-w-a 9 shared verses
- ا ن س a-n-s 7 shared verses
- ن ع م n-ʿ-m 7 shared verses
- ذ و ق dh-w-q 5 shared verses
- ا ل م a-l-m 5 shared verses
- ن و ر n-w-r 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).