Root n-z-l ن ز ل
The root n-z-l (ن ز ل) occurs 293 times in the Qur'an, the 28th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 257 verses across 60 of the 114 surahs, as 12 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 293 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 28th ● |
| Verses containing it | 257 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 60 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 165 / 128 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 47 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 114 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 128 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 258 / 35 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.26017 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:4 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَنزَلَ | verb | 183 | 50 |
| نَزَّلَ | verb | 62 | 28 |
| تَنزِيلُ | noun | 15 | 14 |
| نُزُلًا | noun | 8 | 6 |
| تَنَزَّلُ | verb | 7 | 5 |
| نَزَلَ | verb | 6 | 5 |
| ٱلْمُنزِلِينَ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| مَنَازِلَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مُنزَلًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مُنَزَّلٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُنَزِّلُهَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| نَزْلَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أُنزِلَ 47×
- أَنزَلَ 47×
- أَنزَلْنَا 16×
- أَنزَلْنَٰهُ 14×
- وَأَنزَلَ 11×
- نَزَّلَ 11×
- وَأَنزَلْنَا 9×
- أَنزَلْنَآ 9×
- نُزِّلَ 6×
- نَزَّلْنَا 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 26× · 4.251 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 23× · 8.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 18× · 5.902 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 16× · 4.596 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 15× · 4.003 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 11× · 5.965 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 9× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 8× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 8× · 5.141 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 8× · 8.959 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 ت ب k-t-b 63 shared verses
- م و ه m-w-h 27 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 47 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 126 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 38 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 42 shared verses
- س و ر s-w-r 7 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 29 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).