Root a-w-l ا و ل
The root a-w-l (ا و ل) occurs 170 times in the Qur'an, the 59th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 158 verses across 54 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 170 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 59th ● |
| Verses containing it | 158 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 54 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 118 / 52 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 43 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 65 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 52 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 170 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.34436 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:41 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ | noun / adjective / time adverb | 82 | 39 |
| أُو۟لُوا۟ | noun | 45 | 25 |
| ءَالَ | noun | 26 | 14 |
| تَأْوِيلِ | noun | 17 | 7 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ 21×
- أَوَّلَ 13×
- أُو۟لُوا۟ 13×
- ءَالَ 11×
- أُو۟لِى 10×
- ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ 10×
- ءَالِ 9×
- ٱلْأُولَىٰ 9×
- لِّأُو۟لِى 6×
- يَٰٓأُو۟لِى 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 10× · 2.873 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 10× · 5.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 7× · 2.108 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 6× · 4.866 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 6× · 3.856 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 6× · 4.494 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 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
- ل ب ب l-b-b 16 shared verses
- س ط ر s-ṭ-r 10 shared verses
- م ر ر m-r-r 9 shared verses
- ا ب و a-b-w 14 shared verses
- ا خ ر a-kh-r 19 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 18 shared verses
- ذ ك ر dh-k-r 17 shared verses
- ن ج و n-j-w 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).