Root r-s-l ر س ل
The root r-s-l (ر س ل) occurs 513 times in the Qur'an, the 12th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 429 verses across 69 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 513 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 12th ● |
| Verses containing it | 429 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 69 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 276 / 237 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 102 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 164 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 237 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 130 / 383 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.271642 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:87 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَرَسُولَهُۥ | noun | 332 | 61 |
| أَرْسَلْنَا | verb | 130 | 47 |
| ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ | noun / adjective | 35 | 13 |
| رِسَٰلَٰتِ | noun | 6 | 3 |
| مُرْسِلِينَ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| رِسَالَتَهُۥ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| وَٱلْمُرْسَلَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُرْسِلَةٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَرْسَلْنَا 41×
- ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ 23×
- وَرَسُولَهُۥ 23×
- وَرَسُولِهِۦ 21×
- رَسُولٌ 18×
- رَسُولًا 17×
- ٱلرَّسُولَ 17×
- ٱلرَّسُولِ 15×
- ٱلرَّسُولُ 13×
- أَرْسَلْنَٰكَ 12×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Tawbah 35× · 14.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 31× · 8.273 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 30× · 9.036 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 23× · 8.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 18× · 2.943 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 18× · 5.171 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 17× · 12.898 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 17× · 13.209 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 12× · 3.934 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 12× · 7.712 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
- ج ي ا j-y-a 62 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 211 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 107 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 58 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 69 shared verses
- ر و ح r-w-ḥ 19 shared verses
- ب ش ر b-sh-r 29 shared verses
- ط و ع ṭ-w-ʿ 28 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).