Root ʿ-s-y ع س ي
The root ʿ-s-y (ع س ي) occurs 30 times in the Qur'an, the 303rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 28 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 30 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 303rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 28 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 15 / 15 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 30 / 0 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.632016 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:216 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| عَسَىٰٓ | verb | 30 | 16 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- عَسَىٰٓ 10×
- عَسَىٰ 6×
- عَسَى 5×
- فَعَسَىٰٓ 3×
- وَعَسَىٰٓ 2×
- عَسَيْتُمْ 2×
- فَعَسَى 1×
- فَعَسَىٰ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hujurat 2× · 5.764 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tahrim 2× · 8.032 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
- ت و ب t-w-b 5 shared verses
- خ ي ر kh-y-r 6 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 10 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 15 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 8 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 11 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).