Root s-n-w س ن و
The root s-n-w (س ن و) occurs 20 times in the Qur'an, the 411th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 20 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 20 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 411th ● |
| Verses containing it | 20 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 17 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 16 / 4 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 20 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.663539 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:96 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سِنِينَ | noun / time adverb | 12 | 9 |
| سَنَةٍ | noun | 7 | 7 |
| سَنَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سِنِينَ 8×
- سَنَةٍ 5×
- سَنَةً 2×
- ٱلسِّنِينَ 2×
- بِٱلسِّنِينَ 1×
- سِنِينَ 1×
- سَنَا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 1× · 0.643 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 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 ل ف a-l-f 6 shared verses
- ل ب ث l-b-th 6 shared verses
- ع د د ʿ-d-d 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).