Root ʿ-r-sh ع ر ش
The root ʿ-r-sh (ع ر ش) occurs 33 times in the Qur'an, the 275th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 32 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 33 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 275th ● |
| Verses containing it | 32 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 25 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 28 / 5 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 31 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.561843 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:259 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْعَرْشِ | noun | 29 | 23 |
| مَعْرُوشَٰتٍ | adjective / noun | 2 | 1 |
| يَعْرِشُونَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْعَرْشِ 19×
- عُرُوشِهَا 3×
- يَعْرِشُونَ 2×
- مَّعْرُوشَٰتٍ 1×
- مَعْرُوشَٰتٍ 1×
- عَرْشُهُۥ 1×
- عَرْشٌ 1×
- بِعَرْشِهَا 1×
- عَرْشَهَا 1×
- عَرْشُكِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Naml 5× · 4.344 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 1× · 0.563 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
- س ت ت s-t-t 6 shared verses
- س و ي s-w-y 7 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 16 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 9 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 9 shared verses
- ع ظ م ʿ-ẓ-m 5 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 6 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).