Root r-b-ʿ ر ب ع
The root r-b-ʿ (ر ب ع) occurs 22 times in the Qur'an, the 382nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 21 verses across 11 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 22 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 382nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 21 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 11 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 5 / 17 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 22 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.689301 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:51 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَرْبَعَةً | noun | 9 | 5 |
| أَرْبَعِينَ | noun / time adverb | 7 | 5 |
| رَابِعُهُمْ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَرُبَٰعَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلرُّبُعُ | noun | 2 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَرْبَعِينَ 3×
- أَرْبَعَةِ 2×
- أَرْبَعَةَ 2×
- أَرْبَعَةً 2×
- وَرُبَٰعَ 2×
- ٱلرُّبُعُ 2×
- بِأَرْبَعَةِ 2×
- أَرْبَعِينَ 1×
- أَرْبَعَةٌ 1×
- رَّابِعُهُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nur 5× · 3.799 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 1× · 1.29 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 1× · 1.259 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 1× · 1.555 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
- ث ل ث th-l-th 7 shared verses
- ش ه ر sh-h-r 5 shared verses
- ش ه د sh-h-d 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 13 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 5 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 5 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).