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Root m-w-l م و ل

The root m-w-l (م و ل) occurs 86 times in the Qur'an, the 130th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 80 verses across 38 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences86 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots130th ●
Verses containing it80 ●
Surahs containing it38 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs32 / 54 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)8 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)4 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)20 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)54 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 86 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.527704 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:155 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
أَمْوَٰلَهُمْnoun8638

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • أَمْوَٰلَهُمْ 8×
  • بِأَمْوَٰلِهِمْ 8×
  • مَالًا 7×
  • أَمْوَٰلُهُمْ 5×
  • أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ 5×
  • أَمْوَٰلُكُمْ 4×
  • ٱلْأَمْوَٰلِ 3×
  • أَمْوَٰلِكُمْ 3×
  • أَمْوَٰلَ 3×
  • ٱلْمَالَ 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Nisa' 14× · 3.736 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Tawbah 12× · 4.804 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Baqarah 11× · 1.799 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Anfal 3× · 2.433 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Saba 2× · 2.265 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order