Root q-ṭ-ʿ ق ط ع
The root q-ṭ-ʿ (ق ط ع) occurs 36 times in the Qur'an, the 261st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 36 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 36 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 261st ● |
| Verses containing it | 36 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 23 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 16 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 29 / 7 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.531427 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:27 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| قُطِّعَتْ | verb | 12 | 8 |
| وَيَقْطَعُونَ | verb | 12 | 12 |
| تَقَطَّعَ | verb | 5 | 5 |
| قِطَعًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| بِقِطْعٍ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مَقْطُوعٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَقْطُوعَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| قَاطِعَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَيَقْطَعُونَ 2×
- لَأُقَطِّعَنَّ 2×
- بِقِطْعٍ 2×
- قُطِّعَتْ 2×
- وَتَقَطَّعَتْ 1×
- لِيَقْطَعَ 1×
- تُقَطَّعَ 1×
- فَٱقْطَعُوٓا۟ 1×
- فَقُطِعَ 1×
- تَّقَطَّعَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 3× · 3.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 2× · 3.711 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 د ي y-d-y 7 shared verses
- د ب ر d-b-r 5 shared verses
- ر ج ل r-j-l 5 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 8 shared verses
- خ ل ف kh-l-f 5 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 7 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 14 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).