Root n-h-y ن ه ي
The root n-h-y (ن ه ي) occurs 56 times in the Qur'an, the 193rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 54 verses across 26 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 56 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 193rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 54 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 26 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 28 / 28 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 28 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 49 / 7 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.486655 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:192 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| نُهُوا۟ | verb | 32 | 18 |
| تَنتَهِ | verb | 16 | 11 |
| ٱلْمُنتَهَىٰ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| ٱلنُّهَىٰ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| مُّنتَهُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَٱلنَّاهُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يَتَنَاهَوْنَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- نُهُوا۟ 5×
- وَيَنْهَوْنَ 4×
- ٱنتَهَوْا۟ 3×
- يَنْهَوْنَ 3×
- تَنتَهِ 3×
- يَنتَهُوا۟ 2×
- نُهِيتُ 2×
- تَنتَهُوا۟ 2×
- ٱلنُّهَىٰ 2×
- يَنتَهِ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 3× · 2.433 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 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
- ن ك ر n-k-r 12 shared verses
- ع ر ف ʿ-r-f 9 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 12 shared verses
- د ي ن d-y-n 6 shared verses
- ع و د ʿ-w-d 5 shared verses
- ص ل و ṣ-l-w 5 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 18 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).