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Root n-w-r ن و ر

The root n-w-r (ن و ر) occurs 194 times in the Qur'an, the 50th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 174 verses across 62 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences194 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots50th ●
Verses containing it174 ●
Surahs containing it62 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs97 / 97 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)7 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)32 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)58 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)97 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 194 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.311166 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:17 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
ٱلنَّارِnoun14557
نُورًاnoun4320
مُّنِيرًاnoun / adjective66

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱلنَّارِ 70×
  • ٱلنَّارُ 21×
  • نَارًا 19×
  • ٱلنَّارَ 11×
  • نُورًا 9×
  • ٱلنُّورِ 8×
  • نَّارٍ 5×
  • نَارٌ 4×
  • نَارِ 4×
  • نَارَ 3×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 18× · 2.943 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Al ʿImran 12× · 3.447 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Nur 9× · 6.839 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Ma'idah 8× · 2.853 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Tawbah 8× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Ghafir 8× · 6.563 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Hadid 7× · 12.195 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-An'am 5× · 1.639 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order