Root s-n-n س ن ن
The root s-n-n (س ن ن) occurs 21 times in the Qur'an, the 398th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 15 verses across 11 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 21 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 398th ● |
| Verses containing it | 15 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 11 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 11 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 21 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.756828 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:137 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سُنَّةَ | noun | 16 | 10 |
| مَّسْنُونٍ | noun | 3 | 1 |
| بِٱلسِّنِّ | noun | 2 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سُنَّةَ 4×
- مَّسْنُونٍ 3×
- سُنَّةُ 2×
- لِسُنَّةِ 2×
- سُنَّتَ 2×
- لِسُنَّتِ 2×
- سُنَنٌ 1×
- سُنَنَ 1×
- وَٱلسِّنَّ 1×
- بِٱلسِّنِّ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Hijr 4× · 6.107 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 3× · 3.871 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fath 2× · 3.571 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 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
- خ ل و kh-l-w 6 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).