Root r-w-ḥ ر و ح
The root r-w-ḥ (ر و ح) occurs 57 times in the Qur'an, the 190th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 52 verses across 40 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 57 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 190th ● |
| Verses containing it | 52 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 40 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 45 / 12 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 33 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 1 / 56 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.49556 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلرِّيَٰحَ | noun | 29 | 26 |
| بِرُوحِ | noun | 21 | 18 |
| رَّوْحِ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| وَرَيْحَانٌ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَرَوَاحُهَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تُرِيحُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلرِّيَٰحَ 6×
- ٱلرِّيحَ 5×
- رِيحًا 4×
- بِرُوحِ 3×
- ٱلرُّوحُ 3×
- ٱلرِّيَٰحِ 2×
- بِرِيحٍ 2×
- رِيحٌ 2×
- رَّوْحِ 2×
- ٱلرِّيحُ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 3× · 3.672 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 2× · 2.265 per 1,000 word-units
- Sad 2× · 2.729 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
- ر س ل r-s-l 19 shared verses
- ن ف خ n-f-kh 6 shared verses
- ج ر ي j-r-y 6 shared verses
- ب ن ي b-n-y 8 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 10 shared verses
- ب ش ر b-sh-r 7 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 9 shared verses
- م و ه m-w-h 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).