Root a-th-r ا ث ر
The root a-th-r (ا ث ر) occurs 21 times in the Qur'an, the 387th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 21 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 21 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 387th ● |
| Verses containing it | 21 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 17 / 4 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 6 / 15 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.810589 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 5:46 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ءَاثَٰرِهِم | noun | 14 | 10 |
| ءَاثَرَكَ | verb | 5 | 5 |
| أَثَٰرَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يُؤْثَرُ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ءَاثَٰرِهِم 4×
- ءَاثَٰرِهِمْ 2×
- أَثَرِ 2×
- وَءَاثَارًا 2×
- ءَاثَرَكَ 1×
- ءَاثَارِهِمَا 1×
- نُّؤْثِرَكَ 1×
- أَثَرِى 1×
- ءَاثَٰرِ 1×
- وَءَاثَٰرَهُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 1× · 1.224 per 1,000 word-units
- Yasin 1× · 1.379 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 1× · 1.163 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 1× · 1.555 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
- ح ي ي ḥ-y-y 5 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 9 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).