Root s-r-f س ر ف
The root s-r-f (س ر ف) occurs 23 times in the Qur'an, the 374th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 21 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 23 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 374th ● |
| Verses containing it | 21 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 17 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 3 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 6 / 17 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.629898 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:147 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ | noun / adjective | 15 | 11 |
| تُسْرِفُوٓا۟ | verb | 6 | 6 |
| إِسْرَافًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ 7×
- تُسْرِفُوٓا۟ 2×
- مُّسْرِفُونَ 2×
- لِلْمُسْرِفِينَ 2×
- مُسْرِفٌ 2×
- وَإِسْرَافَنَا 1×
- إِسْرَافًا 1×
- لَمُسْرِفُونَ 1×
- يُسْرِف 1×
- أَسْرَفَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 3× · 2.461 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 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-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 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-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 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
- ق و م q-w-m 7 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 8 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).