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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).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences519 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots11th ●
Verses containing it449 ●
Surahs containing it73 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs312 / 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 adjectives236 / 283 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.211339 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:20 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
شَىْءٍnoun28365
يَشَآءُverb23653

● 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

  1. al-Baqarah 43× · 7.031 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-An'am 39× · 12.787 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Al ʿImran 32× · 9.193 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Ma'idah 21× · 7.489 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Shura 21× · 24.419 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Nahl 19× · 10.304 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-A'raf 18× · 5.422 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Nisa' 17× · 4.537 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Kahf 15× · 9.5 per 1,000 word-units
  10. 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order