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Root r-j-l ر ج ل

The root r-j-l (ر ج ل) occurs 73 times in the Qur'an, the 152nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 66 verses across 32 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences73 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots152nd ●
Verses containing it66 ●
Surahs containing it32 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs44 / 29 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)0 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)20 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)24 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)29 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 73 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.41206 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:228 ●

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
رَجُلٌnoun2919
رِجَالًاnoun2815
وَأَرْجُلَكُمnoun1510
وَرَجِلِكَnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • رِجَالًا 7×
  • رَجُلٌ 7×
  • رَجُلًا 6×
  • رِجَالٌ 6×
  • رَجُلٍ 5×
  • ٱلرِّجَالِ 3×
  • ٱلرِّجَالَ 3×
  • وَأَرْجُلَكُم 3×
  • رِّجَالِكُمْ 2×
  • رَجُلَيْنِ 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Nisa' 8× · 2.135 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Nur 5× · 3.799 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Zumar 3× · 2.56 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Isra 2× · 1.285 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