Root q-r-b ق ر ب
The root q-r-b (ق ر ب) occurs 96 times in the Qur'an, the 120th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 91 verses across 41 of the 114 surahs, as 11 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 96 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 120th ● |
| Verses containing it | 91 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 41 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 50 / 46 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 33 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 46 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 21 / 75 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.387009 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:35 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| قَرِيبًا | adjective / noun | 26 | 20 |
| أَقْرَبُ | noun / adjective | 19 | 11 |
| ٱلْقُرْبَىٰ | noun | 16 | 13 |
| تَقْرَبُوا۟ | verb | 11 | 7 |
| ٱلْمُقَرَّبُونَ | noun / adjective | 8 | 6 |
| تُقَرِّبُكُمْ | verb | 5 | 5 |
| ٱقْتَرَبَ | verb | 5 | 4 |
| قُرْبَانًا | noun | 3 | 3 |
| مَقْرَبَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| قُرْبَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| قُرُبَٰتٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْقُرْبَىٰ 12×
- أَقْرَبُ 8×
- تَقْرَبُوا۟ 5×
- قَرِيبٍ 5×
- قَرِيبًا 5×
- قَرِيبٌ 5×
- ٱلْمُقَرَّبِينَ 4×
- قَرِيبًا 4×
- وَٱلْأَقْرَبِينَ 3×
- قَرِيبٌ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 12× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 10× · 1.635 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 5× · 1.783 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 5× · 2.002 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 5× · 3.213 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 3× · 2.566 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
- ي ت م y-t-m 10 shared verses
- س ك ن s-k-n 13 shared verses
- و ل د w-l-d 10 shared verses
- و ص ي w-ṣ-y 5 shared verses
- ب ن ي b-n-y 11 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 47 shared verses
- ع د ل ʿ-d-l 5 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 11 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).