Root m-t-ʿ م ت ع
The root m-t-ʿ (م ت ع) occurs 70 times in the Qur'an, the 157th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 65 verses across 38 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 70 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 157th ● |
| Verses containing it | 65 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 38 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 43 / 27 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 31 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 35 / 35 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.387855 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:36 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| مَتَٰعٌ | noun | 35 | 23 |
| مَتَّعْنَا | verb | 18 | 13 |
| تَمَتَّعُوا۟ | verb | 11 | 11 |
| ٱسْتَمْتَعَ | verb | 6 | 4 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- مَتَٰعُ 6×
- مَتَٰعٌ 6×
- وَمَتَٰعٌ 3×
- مَّتَٰعًا 3×
- مَتَٰعًا 3×
- تَمَتَّعُوا۟ 3×
- مَتَّعْنَا 3×
- وَمَتَٰعًا 3×
- ٱسْتَمْتَعَ 2×
- فَتَمَتَّعُوا۟ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 4× · 3.108 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 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
- د ن و d-n-w 18 shared verses
- ح ي ي ḥ-y-y 16 shared verses
- ح ي ن ḥ-y-n 8 shared verses
- ق ل ل q-l-l 9 shared verses
- ج ن ح j-n-ḥ 6 shared verses
- ن و ر n-w-r 8 shared verses
- غ ي ر gh-y-r 7 shared verses
- ز و ج z-w-j 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).