Root s-r-ʿ س ر ع
The root s-r-ʿ (س ر ع) occurs 23 times in the Qur'an, the 373rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 23 verses across 14 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 23 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 373rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 23 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 14 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 11 / 12 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 9 / 14 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.678742 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:202 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سَرِيعُ | noun / adjective | 10 | 9 |
| يُسَٰرِعُونَ | verb | 9 | 4 |
| أَسْرَعُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| سِرَاعًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- سَرِيعُ 7×
- يُسَٰرِعُونَ 6×
- أَسْرَعُ 2×
- سَرِيعُ 2×
- سِرَاعًا 2×
- وَيُسَٰرِعُونَ 1×
- وَسَارِعُوٓا۟ 1×
- لَسَرِيعُ 1×
- نُسَارِعُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 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-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 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
- ح س ب ḥ-s-b 9 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 14 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 5 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).