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Root n-b-t ن ب ت

The root n-b-t (ن ب ت) occurs 26 times in the Qur'an, the 341st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 23 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences26 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots341st ●
Verses containing it23 ●
Surahs containing it21 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs20 / 6 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)8 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)11 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)6 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives17 / 9 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.599166 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:61 ●

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
فَأَنۢبَتْنَاverb1613
نَبَاتًاnoun99
تَنۢبُتُverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • فَأَنۢبَتْنَا 4×
  • وَأَنۢبَتْنَا 3×
  • تُنۢبِتُ 2×
  • نَبَاتًا 2×
  • نَبَاتُهُۥ 2×
  • نَبَاتُ 2×
  • أَنۢبَتَتْ 1×
  • وَأَنۢبَتَهَا 1×
  • نَبَاتَ 1×
  • يُنۢبِتُ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Qaf 2× · 5.362 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Nuh 2× · 8.85 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 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