Root s-w-a س و ا
The root s-w-a (س و ا) occurs 167 times in the Qur'an, the 65th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 151 verses across 45 of the 114 surahs, as 12 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 167 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 65th ● |
| Verses containing it | 151 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 45 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 111 / 56 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 38 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 72 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 56 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 35 / 132 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.366815 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:49 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| سُوٓءُ | noun | 50 | 21 |
| ٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ | noun | 36 | 23 |
| سَآءَ | verb | 30 | 21 |
| بِٱلسَّيِّئَةِ | noun / adjective | 22 | 14 |
| ٱلسَّوْءِ | noun | 9 | 6 |
| أَسَآءَ | verb | 5 | 5 |
| سَوْءَٰتُهُمَا | noun | 5 | 2 |
| سَيِّئًا | adjective / noun | 4 | 3 |
| أَسْوَأَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| سَوْءَةَ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| ٱلْمُسِىٓءُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلسُّوٓأَىٰٓ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ 13×
- سَآءَ 11×
- سُوٓءُ 9×
- سُوٓءَ 7×
- سُوٓءٍ 7×
- سَيِّـَٔاتِهِمْ 7×
- ٱلسَّوْءِ 6×
- سَيِّـَٔاتِكُمْ 5×
- ٱلسُّوٓءَ 5×
- سُوٓءًا 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 14× · 3.736 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 14× · 4.217 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 10× · 5.423 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 8× · 6.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 7× · 6.082 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 7× · 5.973 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 6× · 3.13 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 6× · 7.034 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 م ل ʿ-m-l 42 shared verses
- ح س ن ḥ-s-n 28 shared verses
- ب د و b-d-w 9 shared verses
- ح ي ق ḥ-y-q 5 shared verses
- ج ز ي j-z-y 13 shared verses
- ص ل ح ṣ-l-ḥ 16 shared verses
- ص و ب ṣ-w-b 9 shared verses
- م س س m-s-s 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).