Root r-a-y ر ا ي
The root r-a-y (ر ا ي) occurs 328 times in the Qur'an, the 22nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 297 verses across 72 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 328 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 22nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 297 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 72 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 242 / 86 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 70 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 151 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 86 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 315 / 13 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.271815 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:55 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَرَ | verb | 271 | 70 |
| نُرِيَنَّكَ | verb | 40 | 24 |
| رُءْيَٰىَ | noun | 7 | 4 |
| رِئَآءَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| رَأْىَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| تَرَآءَتِ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| يُرَآءُونَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| وَرِءْيًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَرَ 31×
- يَرَوْا۟ 24×
- أَرَءَيْتُمْ 12×
- وَتَرَى 10×
- يَرَوْنَ 8×
- تَرَىٰٓ 8×
- رَءَا 8×
- تَرَىٰ 6×
- أَرَءَيْتَ 6×
- رَأَوْا۟ 6×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yusuf 17× · 9.567 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 15× · 4.918 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 15× · 4.518 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 11× · 5.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 10× · 2.669 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 8× · 6.488 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 8× · 8.959 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 8× · 6.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 8× · 12.442 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
- ق و ل q-w-l 113 shared verses
- س ح ب s-ḥ-b 6 shared verses
- ش م س sh-m-s 9 shared verses
- ك ب ر k-b-r 21 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 35 shared verses
- ص ر ف ṣ-r-f 8 shared verses
- خ ر ج kh-r-j 20 shared verses
- ض ل ل ḍ-l-l 21 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).