Root n-z-ʿ ن ز ع
The root n-z-ʿ (ن ز ع) occurs 20 times in the Qur'an, the 408th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 20 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 408th ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 14 / 6 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 18 / 2 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.699169 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:26 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَنَزَعْنَا | verb | 10 | 8 |
| يَتَنَٰزَعُونَ | verb | 7 | 6 |
| نَزَّاعَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَٱلنَّٰزِعَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يُنَٰزِعُنَّكَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَنَزَعْنَا 3×
- وَنَزَعَ 2×
- يَتَنَٰزَعُونَ 2×
- وَتَنزِعُ 1×
- وَتَنَٰزَعْتُمْ 1×
- تَنَٰزَعْتُمْ 1×
- يَنزِعُ 1×
- وَلَتَنَٰزَعْتُمْ 1×
- تَنَٰزَعُوا۟ 1×
- نَزَعْنَٰهَا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 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
- ا م ر a-m-r 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).