Root ʿ-r-b ع ر ب
The root ʿ-r-b (ع ر ب) occurs 22 times in the Qur'an, the 379th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 22 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 22 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 379th ● |
| Verses containing it | 22 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 15 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 11 / 11 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 22 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.787042 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 9:90 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| عَرَبِيًّا | adjective / noun | 11 | 10 |
| ٱلْأَعْرَابِ | noun | 10 | 4 |
| عُرُبًا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْأَعْرَابِ 8×
- عَرَبِيًّا 8×
- ٱلْأَعْرَابُ 2×
- عَرَبِىٌّ 1×
- عَرَبِىٍّ 1×
- وَعَرَبِىٌّ 1×
- عُرُبًا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 2× · 2.519 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fath 2× · 3.571 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 1× · 0.759 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 1× · 0.777 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 1× · 0.853 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
- ق ر ا q-r-a 7 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 5 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 9 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).