Root m-w-h م و ه
The root m-w-h (م و ه) occurs 63 times in the Qur'an, the 174th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 60 verses across 41 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 63 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 174th ● |
| Verses containing it | 60 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 41 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 48 / 15 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 29 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 63 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.498994 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:22 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| مَآءً | noun | 63 | 41 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- مَآءً 23×
- مَّآءٍ 7×
- ٱلْمَآءَ 7×
- ٱلْمَآءِ 6×
- ٱلْمَآءُ 4×
- بِمَآءٍ 4×
- كَمَآءٍ 2×
- مَآءًۢ 2×
- مَّآءً 2×
- مَآءَكِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 3× · 3.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 3× · 8.772 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 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
- ن ز ل n-z-l 27 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 28 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 23 shared verses
- ن ب ت n-b-t 8 shared verses
- س ق ي s-q-y 7 shared verses
- خ ر ج kh-r-j 12 shared verses
- ث م ر th-m-r 6 shared verses
- ق د ر q-d-r 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).