Root s-l-ṭ س ل ط
The root s-l-ṭ (س ل ط) occurs 39 times in the Qur'an, the 245th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 39 verses across 27 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 39 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 245th ● |
| Verses containing it | 39 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 27 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 31 / 8 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 37 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.559091 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:151 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سُلْطَٰنًا | noun | 37 | 26 |
| لَسَلَّطَهُمْ | verb | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سُلْطَٰنًا 11×
- سُلْطَٰنٍ 7×
- بِسُلْطَٰنٍ 7×
- سُلْطَٰنٌ 4×
- وَسُلْطَٰنٍ 3×
- سُلْطَٰنٍۭ 2×
- لَسَلَّطَهُمْ 1×
- سُلْطَٰنُهُۥ 1×
- بِسُلْطَٰنٍۭ 1×
- يُسَلِّطُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 3× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 3× · 2.461 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 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
- ب ي ن b-y-n 14 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 9 shared verses
- ش ر ك sh-r-k 6 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 9 shared verses
- ع ب د ʿ-b-d 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 20 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 7 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).