Root n-b-a ن ب ا
The root n-b-a (ن ب ا) occurs 160 times in the Qur'an, the 69th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 151 verses across 47 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 160 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 69th ● |
| Verses containing it | 151 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 47 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 71 / 89 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 42 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 89 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 51 / 109 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.374639 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:31 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلنَّبِىُّ | noun | 75 | 20 |
| فَيُنَبِّئُكُم | verb | 46 | 25 |
| أَنۢبَآءِ | noun | 29 | 20 |
| وَٱلنُّبُوَّةَ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| أَنۢبَأَكَ | verb | 4 | 2 |
| وَيَسْتَنۢبِـُٔونَكَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلنَّبِىُّ 17×
- ٱلنَّبِيِّۦنَ 9×
- ٱلنَّبِىِّ 8×
- فَيُنَبِّئُكُم 7×
- أَنۢبَآءِ 6×
- ٱلنَّبِىَّ 5×
- نَّبِىٍّ 4×
- نَبَأَ 4×
- نَبِيًّا 4×
- نَّبِيًّا 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ahzab 18× · 13.986 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 14× · 4.022 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 11× · 1.799 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 10× · 3.279 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 9× · 3.603 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 8× · 2.853 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 8× · 8.325 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tahrim 8× · 32.129 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 5× · 2.814 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
- ا ت ي a-t-y 34 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 58 shared verses
- ر ج ع r-j-ʿ 14 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 73 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 20 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 12 shared verses
- ز و ج z-w-j 9 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 18 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).