Root s-r-r س ر ر
The root s-r-r (س ر ر) occurs 44 times in the Qur'an, the 222nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 43 verses across 33 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 44 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 222nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 43 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 33 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 30 / 14 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 22 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 19 / 25 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.548131 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:69 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَأَسَرُّوا۟ | verb | 18 | 16 |
| سِرًّا | noun | 11 | 10 |
| سُرُرٍ | noun | 6 | 6 |
| إِسْرَارًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مَسْرُورًا | noun | 2 | 1 |
| وَٱلسَّرَّآءُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَسُرُورًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلسَّرَآئِرُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَسُرُّ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سِرًّا 6×
- يُسِرُّونَ 4×
- وَأَسَرُّوا۟ 4×
- سُرُرٍ 4×
- تُسِرُّونَ 3×
- سِرَّهُمْ 2×
- أَسَرَّ 2×
- ٱلسِّرَّ 2×
- مَسْرُورًا 2×
- تَسُرُّ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- Nuh 2× · 8.85 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Inshiqaq 2× · 18.692 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 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
- ع ل ن ʿ-l-n 12 shared verses
- ج ه ر j-h-r 5 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 18 shared verses
- ن ف ق n-f-q 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 15 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 18 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).