Root a-kh-r ا خ ر
The root a-kh-r (ا خ ر) occurs 250 times in the Qur'an, the 37th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 242 verses across 64 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 250 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 37th ● |
| Verses containing it | 242 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 64 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 153 / 97 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 36 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 100 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 97 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 24 / 226 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.234468 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:4 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ | noun / adjective / time adverb | 155 | 49 |
| أُخْرَىٰ | noun / adjective | 70 | 31 |
| يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ | verb | 15 | 10 |
| يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ | verb | 6 | 6 |
| تَأَخَّرَ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| ٱلْمُسْتَـْٔخِرِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ 55×
- بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ 21×
- ٱلْءَاخِرِ 16×
- وَٱلْءَاخِرَةِ 15×
- ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ 10×
- ءَاخَرَ 10×
- أُخْرَىٰ 9×
- ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ 8×
- ءَاخَرِينَ 7×
- ٱلْءَاخِرِ 7×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 21× · 3.434 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 14× · 4.022 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 13× · 5.204 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 12× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 12× · 7.712 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 9× · 3.21 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 9× · 4.881 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 8× · 2.623 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 8× · 4.502 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 7× · 2.108 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
- د ن و d-n-w 57 shared verses
- ا ج ل a-j-l 18 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 123 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 37 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 58 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 38 shared verses
- ز ك و z-k-w 12 shared verses
- ن ش ا n-sh-a 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).