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Root q-w-y ق و ي

The root q-w-y (ق و ي) occurs 42 times in the Qur'an, the 232nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 39 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences42 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots232nd ●
Verses containing it39 ●
Surahs containing it25 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs30 / 12 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)2 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)11 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)17 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)12 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 42 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.603796 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:63 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
قُوَّةًnoun3019
قَوِىٌّnoun / adjective1110
لِّلْمُقْوِينَnoun11

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • قُوَّةً 12×
  • بِقُوَّةٍ 6×
  • قُوَّةٍ 6×
  • ٱلْقَوِىُّ 3×
  • لَقَوِىٌّ 3×
  • قَوِىٌّ 2×
  • ٱلْقُوَّةِ 2×
  • قَوِىٌّ 2×
  • ٱلْقُوَّةَ 1×
  • قُوَّتِكُمْ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Rum 3× · 3.672 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Ghafir 3× · 2.461 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Naml 2× · 1.738 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order