Root sh-y-a ش ي ا
The root sh-y-a (ش ي ا) occurs 519 times in the Qur'an, the 11th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 449 verses across 73 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 519 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 11th ● |
| Verses containing it | 449 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 73 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 312 / 207 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 76 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 219 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 207 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 236 / 283 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.211339 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:20 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| شَىْءٍ | noun | 283 | 65 |
| يَشَآءُ | verb | 236 | 53 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- شَىْءٍ 176×
- يَشَآءُ 108×
- شَيْـًٔا 77×
- شَآءَ 56×
- شَىْءٌ 11×
- نَشَآءُ 11×
- تَشَآءُ 9×
- يَشَأْ 8×
- يَشَآءَ 8×
- نَّشَآءُ 7×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 43× · 7.031 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 39× · 12.787 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 32× · 9.193 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 21× · 7.489 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 21× · 24.419 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 19× · 10.304 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 18× · 5.422 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 17× · 4.537 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 15× · 9.5 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 13× · 9.878 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
- ك ل ل k-l-l 135 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 282 shared verses
- ق د ر q-d-r 64 shared verses
- م ل ك m-l-k 47 shared verses
- ب س ط b-s-ṭ 15 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 74 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 95 shared verses
- غ ن ي gh-n-y 22 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).