Root n-s-y ن س ي
The root n-s-y (ن س ي) occurs 45 times in the Qur'an, the 215th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 37 verses across 20 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 45 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 215th ● |
| Verses containing it | 37 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 20 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 33 / 12 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 42 / 3 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.596667 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:44 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| نَسُوا۟ | verb | 35 | 17 |
| فَأَنسَىٰهُمْ | verb | 7 | 7 |
| مَّنسِيًّا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَسِيًّا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَسْيًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- نَسُوا۟ 7×
- وَتَنسَوْنَ 2×
- وَنَسِىَ 2×
- نَسِيتُ 2×
- فَنَسِىَ 2×
- نَسِيتُمْ 2×
- فَأَنسَىٰهُمْ 2×
- نُنسِهَا 1×
- تَنسَوُا۟ 1×
- نَّسِينَآ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Kahf 6× · 3.8 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 5× · 3.745 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 3× · 3.122 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Sajdah 2× · 5.376 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jathiyah 2× · 4.098 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
- ذ ك ر dh-k-r 12 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 10 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 8 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 14 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 11 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).