Root m-w-t م و ت
The root m-w-t (م و ت) occurs 165 times in the Qur'an, the 66th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 143 verses across 53 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 165 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 66th ● |
| Verses containing it | 143 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 53 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 99 / 66 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 68 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 66 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 60 / 105 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.361317 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:19 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْمَوْتِ | noun | 50 | 28 |
| مِتْنَا | verb | 39 | 21 |
| ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ | noun / adjective | 38 | 22 |
| وَيُمِيتُ | verb | 21 | 17 |
| ٱلْمَيْتَةَ | noun / adjective | 6 | 5 |
| مَّيْتًا | adjective / noun | 5 | 5 |
| وَمَمَاتُهُمْ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| مَوْتَتَنَا | noun | 3 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْمَوْتِ 14×
- ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ 14×
- ٱلْمَوْتُ 11×
- ٱلْمَوْتَ 10×
- وَيُمِيتُ 9×
- مَوْتِهَا 8×
- ٱلْمَيِّتِ 5×
- يَمُوتُ 5×
- مِتْنَا 5×
- يُمِيتُكُمْ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 21× · 3.434 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 16× · 4.596 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 10× · 3.279 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 8× · 9.792 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 6× · 5.714 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 5× · 4.266 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 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
- ح ي ي ḥ-y-y 65 shared verses
- خ ر ج kh-r-j 18 shared verses
- ب ع ث b-ʿ-th 12 shared verses
- ل ح م l-ḥ-m 6 shared verses
- ت ر ب t-r-b 6 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 17 shared verses
- ب ل د b-l-d 5 shared verses
- م و ه m-w-h 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).