Root n-ʿ-m ن ع م
The root n-ʿ-m (ن ع م) occurs 140 times in the Qur'an, the 79th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 128 verses across 61 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 140 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 79th ● |
| Verses containing it | 128 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 61 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 90 / 50 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 60 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 50 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 36 / 104 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.374337 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| نِعْمَتَ | noun | 50 | 24 |
| ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ | noun | 33 | 22 |
| فَنِعْمَ | verb | 18 | 14 |
| أَنْعَمَ | verb | 17 | 13 |
| ٱلنَّعِيمِ | noun | 17 | 15 |
| وَنَعْمَةٍ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| نَعْمَآءَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَنَعَّمَهُۥ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| نَّاعِمَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ 11×
- ٱلنَّعِيمِ 10×
- نِعْمَتَ 8×
- نِعْمَةَ 7×
- أَنْعَمَ 5×
- فَنِعْمَ 5×
- أَنْعَمْتَ 4×
- وَٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ 4×
- وَنِعْمَ 4×
- نِعْمَتَهُۥ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nahl 13× · 7.05 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 10× · 1.635 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 10× · 3.566 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 6× · 1.967 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 6× · 4.71 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 4× · 3.244 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 4× · 3.413 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 3× · 3.614 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
- ج ن ن j-n-n 20 shared verses
- ت م م t-m-m 6 shared verses
- ا ك ل a-k-l 11 shared verses
- ذ ك ر dh-k-r 18 shared verses
- ح ر م ḥ-r-m 8 shared verses
- ب ط ن b-ṭ-n 5 shared verses
- ا ن س a-n-s 9 shared verses
- م س س m-s-s 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).