Root sh-m-s ش م س
The root sh-m-s (ش م س) occurs 33 times in the Qur'an, the 273rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 32 verses across 28 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 33 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 273rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 32 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 28 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 28 / 5 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 33 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.60824 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:258 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلشَّمْسَ | noun | 33 | 28 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلشَّمْسَ 11×
- وَٱلشَّمْسَ 5×
- ٱلشَّمْسِ 5×
- ٱلشَّمْسُ 4×
- وَٱلشَّمْسُ 3×
- لِلشَّمْسِ 2×
- بِٱلشَّمْسِ 1×
- شَمْسًا 1×
- وَٱلشَّمْسِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Yasin 2× · 2.759 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 2× · 2.519 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 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 م ر q-m-r 18 shared verses
- ل ي ل l-y-l 12 shared verses
- س خ ر s-kh-r 8 shared verses
- ن ه ر n-h-r 10 shared verses
- غ ر ب gh-r-b 5 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 9 shared verses
- ج ر ي j-r-y 5 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).