Root n-kh-l ن خ ل
The root n-kh-l (ن خ ل) occurs 20 times in the Qur'an, the 407th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 20 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 407th ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 16 / 4 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 20 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.746968 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:266 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| نَخْلٍ | noun | 11 | 9 |
| نَّخِيلٍ | noun | 7 | 6 |
| ٱلنَّخْلَةِ | noun | 2 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- نَّخِيلٍ 4×
- ٱلنَّخْلِ 2×
- وَٱلنَّخْلَ 2×
- ٱلنَّخْلَةِ 2×
- نَخْلٍ 2×
- وَنَخِيلٌ 1×
- وَٱلنَّخِيلَ 1×
- ٱلنَّخِيلِ 1×
- بِنَخْلٍ 1×
- وَنَخْلٍ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 2× · 2.081 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rahman 2× · 5.698 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 1× · 0.952 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
- ع ن ب ʿ-n-b 9 shared verses
- ز ر ع z-r-ʿ 5 shared verses
- ث م ر th-m-r 5 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 8 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).