Root a-j-r ا ج ر
The root a-j-r (ا ج ر) occurs 108 times in the Qur'an, the 104th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 99 verses across 39 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 108 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 104th ● |
| Verses containing it | 99 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 39 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 60 / 48 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 32 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 48 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 105 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.463132 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:62 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَجْرًا | noun | 105 | 39 |
| ٱسْتَـْٔجَرْتَ | verb | 2 | 1 |
| تَأْجُرَنِى | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَجْرًا 22×
- أَجْرٌ 11×
- أَجْرٍ 10×
- أَجْرِىَ 9×
- أَجْرَ 8×
- أَجْرُهُمْ 6×
- أُجُورَهُنَّ 6×
- وَأَجْرٌ 5×
- أَجْرَهُم 5×
- أُجُورَهُمْ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 12× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 11× · 8.346 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 5× · 2.608 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 5× · 3.497 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 5× · 3.885 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hadid 5× · 8.711 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 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
- ص ل ح ṣ-l-ḥ 25 shared verses
- ع ظ م ʿ-ẓ-m 20 shared verses
- س ا ل s-a-l 19 shared verses
- ح س ن ḥ-s-n 22 shared verses
- ض ي ع ḍ-y-ʿ 7 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 24 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 36 shared verses
- غ ف ر gh-f-r 16 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).