Root q-s-m ق س م
The root q-s-m (ق س م) occurs 33 times in the Qur'an, the 279th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 31 verses across 24 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 33 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 279th ● |
| Verses containing it | 31 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 24 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 26 / 7 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 25 / 8 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.717968 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 4:8 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أُقْسِمُ | verb | 20 | 16 |
| قِسْمَةٌ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| قَسَمٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| قَسَمْنَا | verb | 2 | 1 |
| فَٱلْمُقَسِّمَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمُقْتَسِمِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَّقْسُومٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَقَاسَمَهُمَآ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| تَقَاسَمُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| تَسْتَقْسِمُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أُقْسِمُ 8×
- وَأَقْسَمُوا۟ 4×
- أَقْسَمُوا۟ 2×
- فَيُقْسِمَانِ 2×
- ٱلْقِسْمَةَ 1×
- تَسْتَقْسِمُوا۟ 1×
- وَقَاسَمَهُمَآ 1×
- أَقْسَمْتُمْ 1×
- أَقْسَمْتُم 1×
- مَّقْسُومٌ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Waqi'ah 2× · 5.277 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qiyamah 2× · 12.195 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 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
- ج ه د j-h-d 5 shared verses
- ي م ن y-m-n 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 10 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).