Root n-w-s ن و س
The root n-w-s (ن و س) occurs 241 times in the Qur'an, the 39th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 225 verses across 53 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 241 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 39th ● |
| Verses containing it | 225 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 53 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 119 / 122 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 25 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 88 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 122 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 241 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.372347 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:8 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلنَّاسِ | noun | 241 | 53 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلنَّاسِ 92×
- ٱلنَّاسَ 48×
- ٱلنَّاسُ 42×
- لِلنَّاسِ 38×
- لِّلنَّاسِ 13×
- وَٱلنَّاسِ 5×
- بِٱلنَّاسِ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 39× · 6.377 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 19× · 5.458 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 17× · 4.537 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 15× · 8.183 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 15× · 11.774 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 9× · 3.21 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 9× · 11.016 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 8× · 4.502 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 6× · 7.229 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 6× · 3.856 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 ث ر k-th-r 37 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 129 shared verses
- ه د ي h-d-y 29 shared verses
- ض ر ب ḍ-r-b 11 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 36 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 25 shared verses
- ب ط ل b-ṭ-l 8 shared verses
- د ب ب d-b-b 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).