Root n-sh-a ن ش ا
The root n-sh-a (ن ش ا) occurs 28 times in the Qur'an, the 321st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 25 verses across 14 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 28 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 321st ● |
| Verses containing it | 25 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 14 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 26 / 2 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 21 / 7 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.824178 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 6:6 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَنشَأَكُم | verb | 20 | 11 |
| ٱلنَّشْأَةَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| إِنشَآءً | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمُنشَـَٔاتُ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمُنشِـُٔونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَاشِئَةَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يُنَشَّؤُا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَنشَأَكُم 4×
- أَنشَأْنَا 3×
- ٱلنَّشْأَةَ 3×
- وَأَنشَأْنَا 2×
- أَنشَأَ 2×
- وَيُنشِئُ 1×
- أَنشَأْنَٰهُ 1×
- فَأَنشَأْنَا 1×
- يُنشِئُ 1×
- أَنشَأَهَآ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Waqi'ah 6× · 15.831 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 5× · 4.762 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Najm 2× · 5.556 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 1× · 0.699 per 1,000 word-units
- Yasin 1× · 1.379 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 خ ر a-kh-r 8 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 5 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).