Root t-l-w ت ل و
The root t-l-w (ت ل و) occurs 63 times in the Qur'an, the 177th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 61 verses across 33 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 63 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 177th ● |
| Verses containing it | 61 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 33 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 36 / 27 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 61 / 2 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.490638 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:44 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تُتْلَىٰ | verb | 61 | 32 |
| تِلَاوَتِهِۦٓ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فَٱلتَّٰلِيَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تُتْلَىٰ 16×
- يَتْلُوا۟ 7×
- يُتْلَىٰ 7×
- يَتْلُونَ 5×
- وَٱتْلُ 5×
- تَتْلُوا۟ 4×
- نَتْلُوهَا 3×
- تَتْلُونَ 1×
- يَتْلُونَهُۥ 1×
- تِلَاوَتِهِۦٓ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 4× · 2.797 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jathiyah 4× · 8.197 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 3× · 2.355 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 3× · 3.074 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 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
- ا ي ي a-y-y 33 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 16 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 12 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 10 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 13 shared verses
- ح ك م ḥ-k-m 8 shared verses
- ن ب ا n-b-a 7 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 12 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).