Root s-k-n س ك ن
The root s-k-n (س ك ن) occurs 69 times in the Qur'an, the 159th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 66 verses across 40 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 69 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 159th ● |
| Verses containing it | 66 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 40 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 39 / 30 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 23 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 30 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 20 / 49 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.421093 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:35 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَٱلْمَسَٰكِينِ | noun / adjective | 23 | 18 |
| لِتَسْكُنُوا۟ | verb | 15 | 11 |
| مَسَٰكِنُهُمْ | noun | 12 | 11 |
| سَكِينَتَهُۥ | noun | 6 | 3 |
| أَسْكَنتُ | verb | 5 | 4 |
| سَكَنًا | noun | 3 | 3 |
| وَٱلْمَسْكَنَةُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مَسْكُونَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| سَاكِنًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| سِكِّينًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَٱلْمَسَٰكِينِ 6×
- سَكِينَتَهُۥ 3×
- لِتَسْكُنُوا۟ 3×
- مِسْكِينًا 3×
- ٱسْكُنْ 2×
- وَٱلْمَسَٰكِينَ 2×
- مَسَٰكِينَ 2×
- سَكَنًا 2×
- ٱسْكُنُوا۟ 2×
- وَمَسَٰكِنَ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 4× · 4.819 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 4× · 2.797 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fath 3× · 5.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 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
- ق ر ب q-r-b 13 shared verses
- ط ع م ṭ-ʿ-m 10 shared verses
- ي ت م y-t-m 8 shared verses
- ب ن ي b-n-y 11 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 11 shared verses
- ش ك ر sh-k-r 7 shared verses
- ن ه ر n-h-r 8 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 13 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).