Root s-l-m س ل م
The root s-l-m (س ل م) occurs 140 times in the Qur'an, the 80th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 127 verses across 48 of the 114 surahs, as 16 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 140 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 80th ● |
| Verses containing it | 127 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 48 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 83 / 57 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 54 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 57 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 28 / 112 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.351844 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:71 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سَلَٰمٌ | noun / adjective | 42 | 26 |
| ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ | noun / proper noun / adjective | 39 | 24 |
| أَسْلَمَ | verb | 22 | 15 |
| لِلْإِسْلَٰمِ | proper noun / noun | 8 | 7 |
| سَلَّمَ | verb | 6 | 5 |
| ٱلسَّلَمَ | noun | 5 | 3 |
| مُّسَلَّمَةٌ | adjective | 3 | 2 |
| تَسْلِيمًا | noun | 3 | 2 |
| مُسْلِمَٰتٍ | adjective / noun | 2 | 2 |
| سَلِيمٍ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| سُلَّمًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| لِلسَّلْمِ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سَلَٰمٌ 19×
- ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ 11×
- مُّسْلِمُونَ 7×
- مُسْلِمُونَ 7×
- مُسْلِمِينَ 7×
- سَلَٰمًا 7×
- أَسْلَمَ 5×
- ٱلسَّلَمَ 4×
- أَسْلَمُوا۟ 3×
- ٱلسَّلَٰمِ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 12× · 3.447 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 11× · 1.799 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 8× · 2.135 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 8× · 9.302 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 7× · 2.295 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 7× · 6.082 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 6× · 3.254 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 6× · 4.662 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 5× · 2.728 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 5× · 4.266 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
- د خ ل d-kh-l 13 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 31 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 57 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 45 shared verses
- ه د ي h-d-y 14 shared verses
- د ي ن d-y-n 7 shared verses
- ب غ ي b-gh-y 7 shared verses
- ت و ب t-w-b 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).