Root s-w-y س و ي
The root s-w-y (س و ي) occurs 83 times in the Qur'an, the 135th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 80 verses across 48 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 83 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 135th ● |
| Verses containing it | 80 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 48 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 57 / 26 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 32 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 50 / 33 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.410281 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:6 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَسْتَوِى | verb | 35 | 24 |
| سَوَآءٌ | noun / adjective | 27 | 23 |
| سَوَّيْتُهُۥ | verb | 13 | 11 |
| سَوِيًّا | adjective / noun | 5 | 3 |
| سَاوَىٰ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| سُوًى | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| تُسَوَّىٰ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَسْتَوِى 11×
- سَوَآءٌ 9×
- ٱسْتَوَىٰ 7×
- سَوَآءً 5×
- سَوَآءِ 5×
- سَوَآءَ 4×
- يَسْتَوُۥنَ 3×
- ٱسْتَوَىٰٓ 2×
- سَوَآءٍ 2×
- يَسْتَوِيَانِ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 4× · 4.689 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 3× · 3.122 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Sajdah 3× · 8.065 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 3× · 3.871 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 3× · 3.778 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
- س ت ت s-t-t 5 shared verses
- ع ر ش ʿ-r-sh 7 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 11 shared verses
- ع م ي ʿ-m-y 5 shared verses
- س ج د s-j-d 7 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 11 shared verses
- ص ر ط ṣ-r-ṭ 5 shared verses
- م ث ل m-th-l 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).