Root q-r-a ق ر ا
The root q-r-a (ق ر ا) occurs 88 times in the Qur'an, the 127th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 79 verses across 42 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 88 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 127th ● |
| Verses containing it | 79 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 42 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 78 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 43 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 17 / 71 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.575608 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:185 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْقُرْءَانَ | proper noun / noun | 70 | 38 |
| ٱقْرَأْ | verb | 16 | 10 |
| سَنُقْرِئُكَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| قُرُوٓءٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْقُرْءَانَ 22×
- ٱلْقُرْءَانِ 13×
- ٱلْقُرْءَانُ 8×
- قُرْءَانًا 7×
- وَٱلْقُرْءَانِ 4×
- ٱقْرَأْ 3×
- قُرِئَ 2×
- يَقْرَءُونَ 2×
- قُرْءَٰنًا 2×
- قَرَأْتَ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Isra 16× · 10.283 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 4× · 3.475 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 4× · 11.696 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Muzzammil 4× · 20.101 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 3× · 4.58 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 3× · 3.778 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qiyamah 3× · 18.293 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 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
- ع ر ب ʿ-r-b 7 shared verses
- ي س ر y-s-r 6 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 13 shared verses
- ص ر ف ṣ-r-f 5 shared verses
- و ح ي w-ḥ-y 6 shared verses
- ذ ك ر dh-k-r 11 shared verses
- ز ي د z-y-d 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 12 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).