Root n-s-w ن س و
The root n-s-w (ن س و) occurs 59 times in the Qur'an, the 183rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 53 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 59 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 183rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 53 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 9 / 50 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 50 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 59 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.631554 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:49 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلنِّسَآءِ | noun | 59 | 16 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلنِّسَآءِ 14×
- ٱلنِّسَآءَ 9×
- نِسَآءَكُمْ 3×
- نِسَآءَهُمْ 3×
- نِسَآئِكُمْ 2×
- نِّسَآئِهِمْ 2×
- وَنِسَآءً 2×
- وَلِلنِّسَآءِ 2×
- نِّسَآئِكُمْ 2×
- وَٱلنِّسَآءِ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 20× · 5.338 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 6× · 4.662 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hujurat 2× · 5.764 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mujadilah 2× · 4.237 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Talaq 2× · 6.969 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
- ر ج ل r-j-l 12 shared verses
- ب ن ي b-n-y 13 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 37 shared verses
- ن ك ح n-k-ḥ 6 shared verses
- ج ن ح j-n-ḥ 6 shared verses
- ع ر ف ʿ-r-f 7 shared verses
- ف ح ش f-ḥ-sh 5 shared verses
- ح ل ل ḥ-l-l 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).