Root n-sh-r ن ش ر
The root n-sh-r (ن ش ر) occurs 21 times in the Qur'an, the 397th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 21 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 397th ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 19 / 2 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 9 / 12 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.845813 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 17:13 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| نُشُورًا | noun | 5 | 3 |
| أَنشَرَهُۥ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| نُشِرَتْ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| فَٱنتَشِرُوا۟ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| مَنشُورًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| بِمُنشَرِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُّنَشَّرَةً | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| مُّنتَشِرٌ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| نَشْرًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَٱلنَّٰشِرَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- نُشُورًا 3×
- فَٱنتَشِرُوا۟ 2×
- ٱلنُّشُورُ 2×
- مَنشُورًا 1×
- يَنشُرْ 1×
- يُنشِرُونَ 1×
- تَنتَشِرُونَ 1×
- وَيَنشُرُ 1×
- فَأَنشَرْنَا 1×
- بِمُنشَرِينَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Furqan 3× · 3.359 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mursalat 2× · 11.05 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 1× · 1.224 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 1× · 0.777 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 1× · 1.29 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 1× · 1.163 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 1× · 1.205 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
- ا ل ه a-l-h 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).