Root s-ʿ-y س ع ي
The root s-ʿ-y (س ع ي) occurs 30 times in the Qur'an, the 305th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 28 verses across 20 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 30 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 305th ● |
| Verses containing it | 28 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 20 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 20 / 10 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.718454 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:114 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَسْعَىٰ | verb | 20 | 14 |
| سَعْيًا | noun | 10 | 9 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَسْعَىٰ 6×
- سَعَىٰ 3×
- تَسْعَىٰ 3×
- وَسَعَىٰ 2×
- وَيَسْعَوْنَ 2×
- سَعْيًا 1×
- سَعْيَهَا 1×
- سَعْيُهُم 1×
- سَعْيُهُمْ 1×
- لِسَعْيِهِۦ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 2× · 2.265 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Najm 2× · 5.556 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nazi'at 2× · 11.173 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 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
- ي و م y-w-m 5 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).