Root s-y-r س ي ر
The root s-y-r (س ي ر) occurs 27 times in the Qur'an, the 336th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 25 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 27 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 336th ● |
| Verses containing it | 25 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 22 / 5 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 21 / 6 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.646037 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:137 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَسِيرُوا۟ | verb | 16 | 14 |
| سُيِّرَتْ | verb | 5 | 5 |
| سَيَّارَةٌ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| سَيْرًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| سِيرَتَهَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَسِيرُوا۟ 7×
- سِيرُوا۟ 5×
- فَسِيرُوا۟ 2×
- سُيِّرَتْ 2×
- وَلِلسَّيَّارَةِ 1×
- يُسَيِّرُكُمْ 1×
- ٱلسَّيَّارَةِ 1×
- سَيَّارَةٌ 1×
- نُسَيِّرُ 1×
- سِيرَتَهَا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 2× · 2.448 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 2× · 2.265 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tur 2× · 6.41 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 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
- ك ي ف k-y-f 12 shared verses
- ع ق ب ʿ-q-b 11 shared verses
- ن ظ ر n-ẓ-r 12 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 15 shared verses
- ج ب ل j-b-l 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 15 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 8 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).