Root s-a-l س ا ل
The root s-a-l (س ا ل) occurs 129 times in the Qur'an, the 86th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 118 verses across 47 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 129 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 86th ● |
| Verses containing it | 118 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 47 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 89 / 40 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 61 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 40 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 115 / 14 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.406806 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:61 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَسْـَٔلُكُمْ | verb | 106 | 42 |
| يَتَسَآءَلُونَ | verb | 9 | 8 |
| لِّلسَّآئِلِ | noun | 7 | 6 |
| مَسْـُٔولًا | noun | 5 | 4 |
| بِسُؤَالِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| سُؤْلَكَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَسْـَٔلُكُمْ 11×
- يَسْـَٔلُونَكَ 9×
- يَتَسَآءَلُونَ 7×
- وَيَسْـَٔلُونَكَ 6×
- سَأَلْتَهُم 6×
- تُسْـَٔلُونَ 5×
- تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ 4×
- تَسْـَٔلُوا۟ 3×
- يَسْـَٔلُونَ 3×
- مَسْـُٔولًا 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 17× · 2.78 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 7× · 5.439 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 5× · 4.277 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 5× · 3.794 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 5× · 6.024 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 4× · 2.251 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 ج ر a-j-r 19 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 27 shared verses
- ب ع ض b-ʿ-ḍ 7 shared verses
- ق ر ب q-r-b 7 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 19 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 40 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 13 shared verses
- م و ل m-w-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).