Root q-l-l ق ل ل
The root q-l-l (ق ل ل) occurs 76 times in the Qur'an, the 143rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 74 verses across 33 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 76 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 143rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 74 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 33 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 42 / 34 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 34 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 73 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.42751 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:41 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| قَلِيلًا | noun / adjective | 70 | 32 |
| أَقَلَّ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| أَقَلَّتْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| قَلِيلَةٍ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| قَلَّ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| وَيُقَلِّلُكُمْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- قَلِيلًا 32×
- قَلِيلًا 23×
- قَلِيلٌ 6×
- وَقَلِيلٌ 3×
- قَلِيلٌ 2×
- فَقَلِيلًا 1×
- قَلِيلَةٍ 1×
- قَلَّ 1×
- أَقَلَّتْ 1×
- وَيُقَلِّلُكُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 5× · 3.213 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 4× · 3.244 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 4× · 3.108 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 3× · 2.857 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Muzzammil 3× · 15.075 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
- ث م ن th-m-n 10 shared verses
- ش ر ي sh-r-y 9 shared verses
- م ت ع m-t-ʿ 9 shared verses
- ش ك ر sh-k-r 6 shared verses
- ك ل م k-l-m 5 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 6 shared verses
- ذ ك ر dh-k-r 9 shared verses
- ا ك ل a-k-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).