Root m-th-l م ث ل
The root m-th-l (م ث ل) occurs 169 times in the Qur'an, the 61st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 148 verses across 50 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 169 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 61st ● |
| Verses containing it | 148 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 50 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 103 / 66 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 75 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 66 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 1 / 168 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.326977 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:17 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| مَثَلًا | noun / adjective | 88 | 28 |
| مِثْلَ | noun | 75 | 35 |
| وَتَمَٰثِيلَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| أَمْثَلُهُمْ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمَثُلَٰتُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمُثْلَىٰ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| فَتَمَثَّلَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- مَثَلًا 17×
- كَمَثَلِ 13×
- مِثْلَ 10×
- مَثَلُ 10×
- مِّثْلَ 7×
- مِثْلُ 6×
- مِّثْلُكُمْ 6×
- مِّثْلِهِۦ 5×
- بِمِثْلِ 5×
- مَّثَلُ 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 22× · 3.597 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 7× · 8.434 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 7× · 3.796 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 6× · 1.967 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 5× · 2.608 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 5× · 5.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 5× · 3.213 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 5× · 3.167 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 ب ḍ-r-b 29 shared verses
- ب ش ر b-sh-r 16 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 29 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 71 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 28 shared verses
- ق د ر q-d-r 13 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 28 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 19 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).