Root s-w-ʿ س و ع
The root s-w-ʿ (س و ع) occurs 49 times in the Qur'an, the 205th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 44 verses across 27 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 49 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 205th ● |
| Verses containing it | 44 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 27 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 42 / 7 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 33 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 49 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.605307 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 6:31 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلسَّاعَةُ | noun / time adverb | 48 | 26 |
| سُوَاعًا | proper noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلسَّاعَةُ 13×
- ٱلسَّاعَةَ 12×
- ٱلسَّاعَةِ 10×
- سَاعَةً 5×
- بِٱلسَّاعَةِ 2×
- وَٱلسَّاعَةُ 2×
- سَاعَةً 1×
- سَاعَةِ 1×
- سَاعَةٍ 1×
- لِّلسَّاعَةِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Rum 4× · 4.896 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 3× · 2.355 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 3× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jathiyah 3× · 6.148 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 3× · 8.772 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 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
- ب غ ت b-gh-t 6 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 10 shared verses
- و ع د w-ʿ-d 6 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 11 shared verses
- ع ن د ʿ-n-d 5 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 7 shared verses
- ن و س n-w-s 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).