Root n-f-q ن ف ق
The root n-f-q (ن ف ق) occurs 111 times in the Qur'an, the 101st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 86 verses across 31 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 111 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 101st ● |
| Verses containing it | 86 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 31 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 13 / 98 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 98 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 70 / 41 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.578781 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:3 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يُنفِقُونَ | verb | 68 | 24 |
| ٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ | noun | 27 | 9 |
| وَٱلْمُنَٰفِقَٰتِ | noun | 5 | 4 |
| نِفَاقًا | noun | 3 | 1 |
| نَافَقُوا۟ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| نَفَقَةً | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْإِنفَاقِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَٱلْمُنفِقِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَفَقًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَفَقَٰتُهُمْ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يُنفِقُونَ 20×
- ٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ 15×
- تُنفِقُوا۟ 8×
- أَنفَقُوا۟ 7×
- ٱلْمُنَٰفِقُونَ 7×
- يُنفِقُ 5×
- وَأَنفِقُوا۟ 4×
- أَنفِقُوا۟ 4×
- وَأَنفَقُوا۟ 4×
- وَٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Tawbah 21× · 8.407 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 20× · 3.27 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 9× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 7× · 5.439 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hadid 7× · 12.195 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 6× · 4.866 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Munafiqun 6× · 33.333 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mumtahanah 4× · 11.494 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Talaq 3× · 10.453 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 ل ه a-l-h 61 shared verses
- ر ز ق r-z-q 16 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 14 shared verses
- ص ل و ṣ-l-w 10 shared verses
- م و ل m-w-l 9 shared verses
- س ر ر s-r-r 6 shared verses
- ط و ع ṭ-w-ʿ 9 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 17 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).