Root sh-r-r ش ر ر
The root sh-r-r (ش ر ر) occurs 31 times in the Qur'an, the 291st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 30 verses across 22 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 31 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 291st ● |
| Verses containing it | 30 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 22 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 19 / 12 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 31 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.710311 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:216 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| شَرٌّ | noun | 30 | 21 |
| بِشَرَرٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- شَرٌّ 6×
- شَرِّ 5×
- ٱلشَّرُّ 4×
- شَرَّ 3×
- بِشَرٍّ 2×
- بِٱلشَّرِّ 2×
- شَرًّا 2×
- ٱلشَّرَّ 1×
- لَشَرَّ 1×
- ٱلْأَشْرَارِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Falaq 4× · 173.913 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- Sad 2× · 2.729 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 2× · 2.519 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Insan 2× · 8.23 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 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
- خ ي ر kh-y-r 7 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 8 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).