Root a-m-n ا م ن
The root a-m-n (ا م ن) occurs 879 times in the Qur'an, the 5th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 723 verses across 77 of the 114 surahs, as 17 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 879 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 5th ● |
| Verses containing it | 723 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 77 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 379 / 500 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 106 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 258 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 500 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 558 / 321 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.25142 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:3 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ءَامَنُوا۟ | verb | 537 | 73 |
| ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ | noun / adjective | 202 | 47 |
| إِيمَٰنًا | noun | 45 | 21 |
| وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَٰتِ | noun / adjective | 22 | 12 |
| أَمِنتُمْ | verb | 20 | 8 |
| أَمِينٌ | adjective | 14 | 8 |
| ءَامِنِينَ | noun | 10 | 8 |
| ءَامِنًا | noun / adjective | 6 | 6 |
| مُّؤْمِنَةٍ | adjective / noun | 6 | 3 |
| أَمْنًا | noun | 5 | 4 |
| لِأَمَٰنَٰتِهِمْ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| أَمَٰنَتَهُۥ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ءَامَنُوا۟ 212×
- يُؤْمِنُونَ 86×
- ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ 74×
- ءَامَنُوٓا۟ 41×
- ءَامَنَّا 31×
- ءَامَنَ 26×
- مُّؤْمِنِينَ 24×
- ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ 22×
- يُؤْمِنُ 18×
- ءَامِنُوا۟ 10×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 84× · 13.734 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 64× · 17.08 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 60× · 17.236 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 47× · 16.762 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 45× · 18.014 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 36× · 10.843 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 31× · 24.087 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 30× · 16.367 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 27× · 20.486 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 26× · 8.525 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 ل ه a-l-h 372 shared verses
- ص ل ح ṣ-l-ḥ 82 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 101 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 126 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 107 shared verses
- ق ل ب q-l-b 49 shared verses
- ا ج ر a-j-r 36 shared verses
- ج ه د j-h-d 19 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).