Root sh-r-b ش ر ب
The root sh-r-b (ش ر ب) occurs 39 times in the Qur'an, the 244th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 34 verses across 22 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 39 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 244th ● |
| Verses containing it | 34 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 22 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 28 / 11 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 16 / 23 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.668229 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:60 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَٱشْرَبُوا۟ | verb | 15 | 10 |
| شَرَابٌ | noun | 11 | 9 |
| لِّلشَّٰرِبِينَ | noun | 5 | 4 |
| شِرْبٌ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| مَّشْرَبَهُمْ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| شُرْبَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَأُشْرِبُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَٱشْرَبُوا۟ 6×
- شَرَابٌ 4×
- لِّلشَّٰرِبِينَ 3×
- مَّشْرَبَهُمْ 2×
- تَشْرَبُونَ 2×
- فَشَٰرِبُونَ 2×
- يَشْرَبُ 2×
- شَرَابًا 2×
- وَأُشْرِبُوا۟ 1×
- شَرِبَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Waqi'ah 4× · 10.554 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Insan 3× · 12.346 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
- Sad 2× · 2.729 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 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
- ا ك ل a-k-l 11 shared verses
- س ق ي s-q-y 5 shared verses
- م و ه m-w-h 5 shared verses
- ع ي ن ʿ-y-n 5 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 9 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 6 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).