Root a-kh-w ا خ و
The root a-kh-w (ا خ و) occurs 96 times in the Qur'an, the 118th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 80 verses across 31 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 96 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 118th ● |
| Verses containing it | 80 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 31 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 58 / 38 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 31 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 38 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 96 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.507552 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:178 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَخِيهِ | noun | 75 | 30 |
| أَخَوَٰتِهِنَّ | noun | 14 | 8 |
| إِخْوَةٌ | noun | 7 | 3 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَخِيهِ 10×
- أَخَاهُمْ 8×
- أَخِى 4×
- وَأَخِيهِ 4×
- أَخَاهُ 4×
- إِخْوَٰنِهِنَّ 4×
- أَخُوهُمْ 4×
- فَإِخْوَٰنُكُمْ 3×
- لِإِخْوَٰنِهِمْ 3×
- وَأَخَاهُ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yusuf 19× · 10.692 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 10× · 2.669 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 9× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 5× · 3.799 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 5× · 3.794 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 5× · 3.885 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 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 ب و a-b-w 15 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 43 shared verses
- ك ي ل k-y-l 5 shared verses
- ب ن ي b-n-y 9 shared verses
- ا م م a-m-m 7 shared verses
- ن س و n-s-w 5 shared verses
- د خ ل d-kh-l 7 shared verses
- غ ي ر gh-y-r 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).