Root s-m-w س م و
The root s-m-w (س م و) occurs 381 times in the Qur'an, the 16th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 352 verses across 81 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 381 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 16th ● |
| Verses containing it | 352 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 81 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 268 / 113 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 62 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 189 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 113 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 8 / 373 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.266673 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:1 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ | noun | 310 | 76 |
| ٱسْمَ | noun | 39 | 25 |
| مُّسَمًّى | noun / adjective | 21 | 17 |
| سَمَّيْتُمُوهَآ | verb | 8 | 7 |
| سَمِيًّا | noun | 2 | 1 |
| تَسْمِيَةَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ 175×
- ٱلسَّمَآءِ 81×
- مُّسَمًّى 16×
- ٱلسَّمَآءُ 15×
- ٱلسَّمَآءَ 13×
- ٱسْمَ 9×
- ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُ 7×
- مُّسَمًّى 5×
- ٱسْمُ 5×
- وَٱلسَّمَآءِ 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 23× · 3.761 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 18× · 5.902 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 14× · 10.989 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 12× · 3.447 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 11× · 3.313 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 10× · 5.456 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 10× · 8.532 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 9× · 10.843 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 9× · 4.881 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 9× · 11.016 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
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 224 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 66 shared verses
- م و ه m-w-h 28 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 185 shared verses
- ا ج ل a-j-l 23 shared verses
- م ل ك m-l-k 41 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 47 shared verses
- ف ط ر f-ṭ-r 13 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).