Root ʿ-m-y ع م ي
The root ʿ-m-y (ع م ي) occurs 33 times in the Qur'an, the 274th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 30 verses across 22 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 33 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 274th ● |
| Verses containing it | 30 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 22 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 22 / 11 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 8 / 25 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.58527 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:18 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ | noun / adjective | 21 | 16 |
| تَعْمَى | verb | 7 | 5 |
| عَمًى | noun | 2 | 1 |
| عَمُونَ | adjective / noun | 2 | 2 |
| فَعُمِّيَتْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْأَعْمَىٰ 7×
- أَعْمَىٰ 4×
- عُمْىٌ 2×
- ٱلْعُمْىَ 2×
- تَعْمَى 2×
- ٱلْعُمْىِ 2×
- فَعَمُوا۟ 1×
- عَمُوا۟ 1×
- عَمِىَ 1×
- عَمِينَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 2× · 2.519 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
- ص م م ṣ-m-m 8 shared verses
- ب ص ر b-ṣ-r 11 shared verses
- س و ي s-w-y 5 shared verses
- س م ع s-m-ʿ 6 shared verses
- ه د ي h-d-y 7 shared verses
- ض ل ل ḍ-l-l 5 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 6 shared verses
- ذ ك ر dh-k-r 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).