Root a-k-l ا ك ل
The root a-k-l (ا ك ل) occurs 109 times in the Qur'an, the 102nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 101 verses across 40 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 109 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 102nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 101 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 40 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 66 / 43 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 44 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 43 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 93 / 16 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.40999 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:35 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كُلُوا۟ | verb | 93 | 35 |
| أُكُلَهَا | noun | 7 | 6 |
| وَأَكْلِهِمُ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| لَءَاكِلُونَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| أَكَّٰلُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَّأْكُولٍۭ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كُلُوا۟ 15×
- تَأْكُلُونَ 11×
- فَكُلُوا۟ 7×
- يَأْكُلُونَ 7×
- وَكُلُوا۟ 5×
- تَأْكُلُوا۟ 5×
- يَأْكُلُ 4×
- تَأْكُلُ 4×
- تَأْكُلُوٓا۟ 3×
- أُكُلَهَا 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 12× · 1.962 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 9× · 3.21 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 9× · 5.065 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 8× · 2.135 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 6× · 1.967 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 6× · 5.714 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 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
- ط ي ب ṭ-y-b 14 shared verses
- ش ر ب sh-r-b 11 shared verses
- ح ل ل ḥ-l-l 8 shared verses
- ر ز ق r-z-q 11 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 14 shared verses
- ن ع م n-ʿ-m 11 shared verses
- س ق ي s-q-y 5 shared verses
- س ب ع s-b-ʿ 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).