Root sh-ṭ-n ش ط ن
The root sh-ṭ-n (ش ط ن) occurs 88 times in the Qur'an, the 126th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 78 verses across 36 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 88 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 126th ● |
| Verses containing it | 78 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 36 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 53 / 35 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 23 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 29 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 35 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 88 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.386493 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:14 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ | proper noun / noun | 88 | 36 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ 34×
- ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ 19×
- ٱلشَّيْطَٰنَ 10×
- ٱلشَّيَٰطِينَ 5×
- ٱلشَّيَٰطِينُ 4×
- شَيْطَٰنٍ 4×
- ٱلشَّيَٰطِينِ 4×
- شَيْطَٰنًا 2×
- وَٱلشَّيَٰطِينَ 2×
- شَيَٰطِينِهِمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 8× · 2.135 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 6× · 1.967 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 5× · 3.213 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 5× · 5.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 4× · 3.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mujadilah 4× · 8.475 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 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
- ع د و ʿ-d-w 13 shared verses
- ر ج م r-j-m 5 shared verses
- ع و ذ ʿ-w-dh 5 shared verses
- ز ي ن z-y-n 6 shared verses
- ت ب ع t-b-ʿ 9 shared verses
- ذ ك ر dh-k-r 11 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 15 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).