Root sh-k-r ش ك ر
The root sh-k-r (ش ك ر) occurs 75 times in the Qur'an, the 144th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 69 verses across 35 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 75 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 144th ● |
| Verses containing it | 69 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 35 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 55 / 20 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 36 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 20 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 46 / 29 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.433651 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:52 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَشْكُرُونَ | verb | 46 | 28 |
| ٱلشَّٰكِرِينَ | noun | 14 | 10 |
| شَكُورٌ | adjective / noun | 10 | 7 |
| شُكُورًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مَّشْكُورًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| شُكْرًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَشْكُرُونَ 19×
- يَشْكُرُونَ 9×
- ٱلشَّٰكِرِينَ 7×
- وَٱشْكُرُوا۟ 5×
- شَكُورٍ 4×
- شَاكِرًا 3×
- شَكُورٌ 3×
- شَكَرْتُمْ 2×
- مَّشْكُورًا 2×
- شُكُورًا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 5× · 4.344 per 1,000 word-units
- Luqman 5× · 9.158 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 4× · 4.53 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 3× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 3× · 3.871 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Insan 3× · 12.346 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
- ف ض ل f-ḍ-l 12 shared verses
- ف ل ك f-l-k 6 shared verses
- ف ا د f-a-d 5 shared verses
- ط ي ب ṭ-y-b 7 shared verses
- ب ح ر b-ḥ-r 6 shared verses
- س ك ن s-k-n 7 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 13 shared verses
- ا ك ل a-k-l 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).