Root q-w-m ق و م
The root q-w-m (ق و م) occurs 660 times in the Qur'an, the 7th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 597 verses across 79 of the 114 surahs, as 22 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 660 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 7th ● |
| Verses containing it | 597 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 79 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 454 / 206 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 142 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 300 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 206 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 97 / 563 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.229148 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:6 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَٰقَوْمِ | noun | 383 | 55 |
| ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ | noun | 70 | 30 |
| وَأَقِيمُوا۟ | verb | 54 | 28 |
| مُّسْتَقِيمٍ | noun / adjective | 37 | 24 |
| تَقُومُ | verb | 33 | 19 |
| قِيَٰمًا | noun | 17 | 12 |
| مَقَامَ | noun | 14 | 13 |
| مُّقِيمٌ | noun / adjective | 10 | 9 |
| ٱسْتَقَٰمُوا۟ | verb | 10 | 8 |
| قَآئِمَةً | noun / adjective | 5 | 5 |
| ٱلْقَيِّمُ | adjective | 5 | 4 |
| وَأَقْوَمُ | noun | 4 | 4 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ 70×
- يَٰقَوْمِ 38×
- لِّقَوْمٍ 36×
- قَوْمًا 35×
- ٱلْقَوْمِ 31×
- ٱلْقَوْمَ 26×
- قَوْمٌ 26×
- قَوْمٍ 20×
- قَوْمِهِۦ 18×
- لِقَوْمٍ 15×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 55× · 16.566 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 42× · 21.909 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 34× · 12.126 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 33× · 5.396 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 30× · 12.01 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 27× · 8.852 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 26× · 6.939 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 24× · 13.093 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 20× · 5.745 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 17× · 9.219 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
- ص ل و ṣ-l-w 52 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 104 shared verses
- ص ر ط ṣ-r-ṭ 33 shared verses
- ز ك و z-k-w 27 shared verses
- ه د ي h-d-y 66 shared verses
- ف س ق f-s-q 21 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 242 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 67 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).