Root sh-r-k ش ر ك
The root sh-r-k (ش ر ك) occurs 168 times in the Qur'an, the 62nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 143 verses across 44 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 168 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 62nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 143 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 44 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 117 / 51 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 20 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 95 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 51 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 72 / 96 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.393435 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:96 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يُشْرِكُونَ | verb | 71 | 29 |
| ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ | noun | 44 | 19 |
| شُرَكَآءَ | noun | 40 | 17 |
| شِرْكٌ | noun | 5 | 4 |
| وَٱلْمُشْرِكَٰتِ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| مُشْرِكَةً | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مُشْتَرِكُونَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَشَارِكْهُمْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ 24×
- يُشْرِكُونَ 19×
- أَشْرَكُوا۟ 9×
- تُشْرِكُونَ 7×
- شُرَكَآءَ 7×
- يُشْرِكْ 5×
- شُرَكَآءُ 4×
- شُرَكَآءِىَ 4×
- وَٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ 4×
- أَشْرَكُوٓا۟ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 29× · 9.508 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 12× · 4.804 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 11× · 5.965 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 9× · 4.91 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 9× · 11.016 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 5× · 3.167 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
- ح ن ف ḥ-n-f 9 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 85 shared verses
- د ع و d-ʿ-w 21 shared verses
- ع ل و ʿ-l-w 13 shared verses
- ز ع م z-ʿ-m 7 shared verses
- ح ر م ḥ-r-m 11 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 27 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 50 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).