Root q-r-n ق ر ن
The root q-r-n (ق ر ن) occurs 36 times in the Qur'an, the 260th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 34 verses across 20 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 36 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 260th ● |
| Verses containing it | 34 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 20 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 34 / 2 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 36 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.670611 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 4:38 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْقُرُونِ | noun | 23 | 15 |
| قَرِينًا | noun | 8 | 5 |
| مُّقَرَّنِينَ | noun / adjective | 3 | 3 |
| مُقْرِنِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُقْتَرِنِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْقُرُونِ 7×
- قَرْنٍ 5×
- ٱلْقَرْنَيْنِ 3×
- قَرِينًا 2×
- قَرْنًا 2×
- ٱلْقُرُونَ 2×
- مُّقَرَّنِينَ 2×
- قُرُونًا 2×
- قَرِينٌ 2×
- قَرِينُهُۥ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Zukhruf 4× · 4.819 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- Qaf 3× · 8.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 2× · 2.081 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 2× · 2.24 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
- ه ل ك h-l-k 12 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 13 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 7 shared verses
- ا و ل a-w-l 5 shared verses
- ا خ ر a-kh-r 5 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 12 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).