Root s-m-ʿ س م ع
The root s-m-ʿ (س م ع) occurs 185 times in the Qur'an, the 52nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 163 verses across 57 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 185 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 52nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 163 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 57 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 115 / 70 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 42 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 72 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 70 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 108 / 77 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.271369 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَسْمَعُونَ | verb | 78 | 40 |
| ٱلسَّمِيعُ | noun / adjective | 47 | 27 |
| ٱلسَّمْعَ | noun | 22 | 17 |
| يَسْتَمِعُونَ | verb | 16 | 14 |
| تُسْمِعُ | verb | 13 | 8 |
| سَمَّٰعُونَ | noun | 4 | 2 |
| مُسْتَمِعُهُم | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مُسْمَعٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| بِمُسْمِعٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يَسَّمَّعُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَسْمَعُونَ 19×
- ٱلسَّمِيعُ 19×
- سَمِعْنَا 16×
- سَمِيعٌ 12×
- ٱلسَّمْعَ 10×
- تُسْمِعُ 8×
- سَمِعُوا۟ 6×
- يَسْتَمِعُونَ 6×
- يَسْمَعُ 5×
- وَٱسْمَعُوا۟ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 16× · 2.616 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 10× · 8.11 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 9× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 7× · 2.496 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 6× · 5.133 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 6× · 4.552 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 5× · 2.728 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 ص ر b-ṣ-r 37 shared verses
- ص م م ṣ-m-m 7 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 44 shared verses
- ل غ و l-gh-w 6 shared verses
- ف ا د f-a-d 6 shared verses
- ع م ي ʿ-m-y 6 shared verses
- د ع و d-ʿ-w 14 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 70 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).