Root a-m-m ا م م
The root a-m-m (ا م م) occurs 118 times in the Qur'an, the 97th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 107 verses across 42 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 118 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 97th ● |
| Verses containing it | 107 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 42 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 81 / 37 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 50 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 37 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 118 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.368211 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:78 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أُمَّةٍ | noun | 64 | 25 |
| أُمَّهَٰتِكُمْ | noun | 34 | 22 |
| أَئِمَّةً | noun | 12 | 11 |
| ٱلْأُمِّيِّۦنَ | noun / adjective | 6 | 4 |
| أَمَامَهُۥ | time adverb | 1 | 1 |
| ءَآمِّينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أُمَّةٍ 23×
- أُمَّةً 14×
- أُمَّةٌ 10×
- أُمَمٍ 6×
- أُمَّهَٰتِكُمْ 5×
- إِمَامًا 4×
- أَئِمَّةً 4×
- أُمَمٌ 3×
- أُمَّ 3×
- أُمِّ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 11× · 3.313 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 9× · 4.881 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 8× · 5.594 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 5× · 2.608 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 5× · 4.762 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 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
- و ح د w-ḥ-d 12 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 21 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 22 shared verses
- خ ل و kh-l-w 8 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 23 shared verses
- ه د ي h-d-y 16 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 14 shared verses
- ا ن س a-n-s 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).