Root n-h-r ن ه ر
The root n-h-r (ن ه ر) occurs 113 times in the Qur'an, the 100th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 102 verses across 51 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 113 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 100th ● |
| Verses containing it | 102 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 51 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 65 / 48 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 43 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 48 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 111 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.383487 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:25 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَٱلنَّهَارِ | noun / time adverb | 57 | 34 |
| ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ | noun | 54 | 32 |
| تَنْهَرْ | verb | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ 40×
- وَٱلنَّهَارِ 13×
- ٱلنَّهَارِ 13×
- ٱلنَّهَارَ 12×
- وَٱلنَّهَارَ 12×
- ٱلْأَنْهَٰرَ 3×
- وَأَنْهَٰرٌ 3×
- بِٱلنَّهَارِ 2×
- نَهَارًا 2×
- وَأَنْهَٰرًا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 6× · 3.273 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 5× · 9.276 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 4× · 4.689 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 4× · 2.571 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 4× · 3.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 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
- ج ر ي j-r-y 45 shared verses
- ت ح ت t-ḥ-t 40 shared verses
- ل ي ل l-y-l 42 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 42 shared verses
- خ ل د kh-l-d 22 shared verses
- د خ ل d-kh-l 17 shared verses
- ف و ز f-w-z 10 shared verses
- ش م س sh-m-s 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).