Root n-k-r ن ك ر
The root n-k-r (ن ك ر) occurs 37 times in the Qur'an, the 254th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 37 verses across 26 of the 114 surahs, as 11 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 37 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 254th ● |
| Verses containing it | 37 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 26 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 23 / 14 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 5 / 32 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.589347 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:104 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْمُنكَرِ | noun | 18 | 12 |
| نَكِيرِ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| مُنكِرُونَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| نُّكْرًا | adjective | 3 | 2 |
| تُنكِرُونَ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| أَنكَرَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُّنكِرَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَكِرَهُمْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| نَكِّرُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| نَّكِيرٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نُّكُرٍ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْمُنكَرِ 8×
- نَكِيرِ 4×
- مُنكِرُونَ 3×
- وَٱلْمُنكَرِ 3×
- نُّكْرًا 3×
- مُّنكَرُونَ 2×
- ٱلْمُنكَرَ 2×
- مُّنكَرٍ 1×
- بِٱلْمُنكَرِ 1×
- نَكِرَهُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 3× · 2.355 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 per 1,000 word-units
- Luqman 2× · 3.663 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 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
- ع ر ف ʿ-r-f 13 shared verses
- ن ه ي n-h-y 12 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 13 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 8 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 17 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 6 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).