Root n-f-s ن ف س
The root n-f-s (ن ف س) occurs 298 times in the Qur'an, the 26th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 270 verses across 63 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 298 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 26th ● |
| Verses containing it | 270 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 63 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 163 / 135 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 37 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 115 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 135 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 296 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.248692 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:9 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَنفُسَهُمْ | noun | 295 | 62 |
| ٱلْمُتَنَٰفِسُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَنَفَّسَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| فَلْيَتَنَافَسِ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَنفُسَهُمْ 34×
- أَنفُسِهِمْ 23×
- نَفْسٍ 20×
- أَنفُسَكُمْ 14×
- أَنفُسِكُمْ 14×
- نَفْسٌ 13×
- نَفْسًا 12×
- أَنفُسُهُمْ 9×
- نَفْسِهِۦ 8×
- وَأَنفُسِهِمْ 8×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 35× · 5.723 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 21× · 6.033 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 19× · 5.071 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 17× · 5.574 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 17× · 6.805 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 13× · 3.916 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 13× · 7.316 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 12× · 4.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 9× · 4.881 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 8× · 4.364 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
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 55 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 139 shared verses
- ك ل ف k-l-f 7 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 41 shared verses
- و ف ي w-f-y 16 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 22 shared verses
- ك س ب k-s-b 15 shared verses
- م و ل m-w-l 17 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).