Root a-n-y ا ن ي
The root a-n-y (ا ن ي) occurs 36 times in the Qur'an, the 256th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 36 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 36 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 256th ● |
| Verses containing it | 36 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 25 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 16 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 1 / 35 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.580896 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:223 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَنَّىٰ | interrogative particle / noun | 28 | 19 |
| ءَانَآءَ | noun / time adverb | 3 | 3 |
| ءَانِيَةٍ | adjective / noun | 2 | 2 |
| ءَانٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| إِنَىٰهُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يَأْنِ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَنَّىٰ 14×
- فَأَنَّىٰ 11×
- وَأَنَّىٰ 2×
- ءَانَآءَ 1×
- أَنَّىٰ 1×
- ءَانَآئِ 1×
- إِنَىٰهُ 1×
- ءَانَآءَ 1×
- ءَانٍ 1×
- يَأْنِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 2× · 2.081 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 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 ف ك a-f-k 9 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 8 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 22 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 10 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 17 shared verses
- ذ ك ر dh-k-r 6 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 5 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).