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).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 194 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 50th ● |
| Verses containing it | 174 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 62 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 97 / 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 adjectives | 0 / 194 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.311166 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:17 ● |
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 form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلنَّارِ | noun | 145 | 57 |
| نُورًا | noun | 43 | 20 |
| مُّنِيرًا | noun / adjective | 6 | 6 |
● 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
- al-Baqarah 18× · 2.943 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 12× · 3.447 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 9× · 6.839 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 8× · 2.853 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 8× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 8× · 6.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hadid 7× · 12.195 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- 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
- خ ل د kh-l-d 23 shared verses
- و ق د w-q-d 10 shared verses
- ص ح ب ṣ-ḥ-b 21 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 44 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 28 shared verses
- ص ل ي ṣ-l-y 9 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 28 shared verses
- ا و ي a-w-y 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).