Root q-w-l ق و ل
The root q-w-l (ق و ل) occurs 1,722 times in the Qur'an, the 2nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 1,383 verses across 84 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 1,722 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 2nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 1,383 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 84 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 1,248 / 474 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 438 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 783 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 474 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 1,620 / 102 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.204843 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:8 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| قَالَ | verb | 1,618 | 82 |
| قَوْلًا | noun | 92 | 43 |
| قَآئِلٌ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| قِيلًا | noun | 4 | 4 |
| تَقَوَّلَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْأَقَاوِيلِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- قَالَ 412×
- قُلْ 218×
- قَالُوا۟ 173×
- وَقَالَ 85×
- قَالُوٓا۟ 77×
- يَقُولُونَ 51×
- وَقَالُوا۟ 49×
- قُل 45×
- يَقُولُ 35×
- قِيلَ 34×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 139× · 22.727 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 110× · 33.133 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 87× · 28.525 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 79× · 44.457 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 74× · 21.258 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 59× · 44.195 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 58× · 20.685 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 58× · 36.732 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 55× · 28.691 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 52× · 39.454 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
- ر ب ب r-b-b 329 shared verses
- س ح ر s-ḥ-r 44 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 118 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 369 shared verses
- ا ب و a-b-w 60 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 514 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 113 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 230 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).