Root q-r-y ق ر ي
The root q-r-y (ق ر ي) occurs 57 times in the Qur'an, the 189th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 54 verses across 26 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 57 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 189th ● |
| Verses containing it | 54 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 26 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 47 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 28 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 57 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.560069 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:58 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| قَرْيَةٍ | noun | 57 | 26 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- قَرْيَةٍ 18×
- ٱلْقُرَىٰ 10×
- ٱلْقَرْيَةِ 7×
- ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ 6×
- ٱلْقَرْيَةَ 3×
- قَرْيَةً 3×
- قَرْيَتِكُمْ 2×
- قُرًى 2×
- قَرْيَتِنَآ 1×
- قَرْيَةٌ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 10× · 3.012 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 4× · 3.422 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-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 3× · 3.398 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 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 16 shared verses
- ا ه ل a-h-l 14 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 10 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 5 shared verses
- ش د د sh-d-d 6 shared verses
- ب ا س b-a-s 5 shared verses
- ن ذ ر n-dh-r 6 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 21 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).