Root n-k-ḥ ن ك ح
The root n-k-ḥ (ن ك ح) occurs 23 times in the Qur'an, the 372nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 19 verses across 6 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 23 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 372nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 19 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 6 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 1 / 22 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 22 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 18 / 5 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.816143 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:221 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَنكِحُوا۟ | verb | 14 | 5 |
| نِكَاحًا | noun | 5 | 3 |
| أُنكِحَكَ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| يَسْتَنكِحَهَا | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَنكِحُوا۟ 2×
- ٱلنِّكَاحِ 2×
- تَنكِحُوهُنَّ 2×
- نِكَاحًا 2×
- تُنكِحُوا۟ 1×
- تَنكِحَ 1×
- يَنكِحْنَ 1×
- فَٱنكِحُوا۟ 1×
- ٱلنِّكَاحَ 1×
- نَكَحَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 5× · 3.799 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 1× · 0.699 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mumtahanah 1× · 2.874 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 س و n-s-w 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 15 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 10 shared verses
- خ ي ر kh-y-r 5 shared verses
- غ ف ر gh-f-r 5 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 8 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 5 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).