Root sh-ʿ-r ش ع ر
The root sh-ʿ-r (ش ع ر) occurs 40 times in the Qur'an, the 240th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 40 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 40 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 240th ● |
| Verses containing it | 40 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 23 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 30 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 27 / 13 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.568644 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:9 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَشْعُرُونَ | verb | 25 | 14 |
| شَاعِرٌ | noun | 5 | 5 |
| شَعَٰٓئِرَ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| وَأَشْعَارِهَآ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| يُشْعِرَنَّ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلشِّعْرَىٰ | proper noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمَشْعَرِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَشْعُرُونَ 21×
- تَشْعُرُونَ 4×
- شَعَٰٓئِرَ 2×
- شَاعِرٌ 2×
- شَعَآئِرِ 1×
- ٱلْمَشْعَرِ 1×
- يُشْعِرُكُمْ 1×
- وَأَشْعَارِهَآ 1×
- يُشْعِرَنَّ 1×
- شَعَٰٓئِرِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 3× · 2.276 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 3× · 2.606 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 2× · 1.399 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 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
- ب غ ت b-gh-t 6 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 11 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 13 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 14 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).