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Root ʿ-ṣ-y ع ص ي

The root ʿ-ṣ-y (ع ص ي) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 283rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 32 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences32 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots283rd ●
Verses containing it32 ●
Surahs containing it23 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs18 / 14 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)6 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)11 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)14 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives27 / 5 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.590648 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:61 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
عَصَوا۟verb2720
عَصِيًّاadjective / noun21
وَمَعْصِيَتِnoun21
وَٱلْعِصْيَانَnoun11

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • عَصَوا۟ 3×
  • يَعْصِ 3×
  • عَصَيْتُ 3×
  • وَعَصَيْنَا 2×
  • وَمَعْصِيَتِ 2×
  • وَعَصَيْتُم 1×
  • وَعَصَوُا۟ 1×
  • عَصَيْتَ 1×
  • وَعَصَوْا۟ 1×
  • عَصَيْتُهُۥ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Maryam 2× · 2.081 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Mujadilah 2× · 4.237 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-An'am 1× · 0.328 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order