Root n-ẓ-r ن ظ ر
The root n-ẓ-r (ن ظ ر) occurs 129 times in the Qur'an, the 85th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 115 verses across 48 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 129 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 85th ● |
| Verses containing it | 115 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 48 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 99 / 30 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 37 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 59 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 30 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 107 / 22 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.411699 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:50 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَنظُرُونَ | verb | 87 | 41 |
| يُنظَرُونَ | verb | 12 | 11 |
| فَٱنتَظِرُوٓا۟ | verb | 8 | 6 |
| ٱلْمُنظَرِينَ | noun | 6 | 5 |
| ٱلْمُنتَظِرِينَ | noun | 6 | 5 |
| لِلنَّٰظِرِينَ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| فَنَاظِرَةٌۢ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| نَظَرَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فَنَظِرَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَظْرَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَنظُرُونَ 19×
- فَٱنظُرْ 13×
- ٱنظُرْ 10×
- يُنظَرُونَ 6×
- فَيَنظُرُوا۟ 6×
- فَٱنظُرُوا۟ 5×
- تَنظُرُونَ 4×
- يَنظُرُ 4×
- وَٱنظُرْ 3×
- ٱلْمُنظَرِينَ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 15× · 4.518 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 11× · 6.001 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 10× · 1.635 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 9× · 2.951 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 8× · 6.95 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 5× · 5.814 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 4× · 6.107 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 4× · 7.421 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 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
- ك ي ف k-y-f 36 shared verses
- ع ق ب ʿ-q-b 21 shared verses
- س ي ر s-y-r 12 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 17 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 41 shared verses
- ب ع ث b-ʿ-th 8 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 20 shared verses
- ق و ي q-w-y 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).