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Root a-j-l ا ج ل

The root a-j-l (ا ج ل) occurs 56 times in the Qur'an, the 192nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 48 verses across 29 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences56 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots192nd ●
Verses containing it48 ●
Surahs containing it29 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs39 / 17 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)10 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)28 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)17 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives2 / 54 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.497415 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:231 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
أَجَلٍnoun5226
أَجَّلْتَverb22
أَجْلِnoun11
مُّؤَجَّلًاadjective11

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • أَجَلٍ 16×
  • أَجَلُهُمْ 6×
  • أَجَلَهُنَّ 4×
  • أَجَلٌ 4×
  • لِأَجَلٍ 4×
  • أَجَلًا 3×
  • وَأَجَلٌ 2×
  • أَجَلَهَا 2×
  • أَجَلَ 2×
  • وَأَجَلٍ 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Fatir 3× · 3.871 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order