Root sh-h-r ش ه ر
The root sh-h-r (ش ه ر) occurs 21 times in the Qur'an, the 386th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 17 verses across 9 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 21 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 386th ● |
| Verses containing it | 17 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 9 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 4 / 17 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 21 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.775119 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:185 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَشْهُرٍ | noun | 21 | 9 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَشْهُرٍ 4×
- ٱلشَّهْرَ 2×
- شَهْرَيْنِ 2×
- شَهْرًا 2×
- شَهْرٌ 2×
- شَهْرُ 1×
- ٱلشَّهْرُ 1×
- بِٱلشَّهْرِ 1×
- أَشْهُرٌ 1×
- ٱلشَّهْرِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 2× · 2.265 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 1× · 1.555 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mujadilah 1× · 2.119 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Talaq 1× · 3.484 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qadr 1× · 33.333 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 ب ع r-b-ʿ 5 shared verses
- ح ر م ḥ-r-m 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 14 shared verses
- و ق ي w-q-y 5 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 6 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).