Root ʿ-ẓ-m ع ظ م
The root ʿ-ẓ-m (ع ظ م) occurs 128 times in the Qur'an, the 88th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 127 verses across 50 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 128 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 88th ● |
| Verses containing it | 127 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 50 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 60 / 68 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 38 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 68 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 125 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.396979 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| عَظِيمٌ | adjective / noun | 120 | 48 |
| أَعْظَمُ | noun / adjective | 3 | 3 |
| بِعَظْمٍ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| يُعَظِّمْ | verb | 2 | 1 |
| وَيُعْظِمْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- عَظِيمٌ 29×
- عَظِيمًا 20×
- ٱلْعَظِيمِ 19×
- عَظِيمٍ 18×
- ٱلْعَظِيمُ 16×
- وَعِظَٰمًا 5×
- عِظَٰمًا 4×
- يُعَظِّمْ 2×
- ٱلْعِظَٰمَ 2×
- عَظِيمٌ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 15× · 4.003 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 9× · 3.603 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 6× · 6.977 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 5× · 4.762 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 5× · 3.799 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Waqi'ah 5× · 13.193 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 4× · 3.035 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
- ف و ز f-w-z 17 shared verses
- ا ج ر a-j-r 20 shared verses
- ف ض ل f-ḍ-l 15 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 26 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 69 shared verses
- ت ح ت t-ḥ-t 9 shared verses
- خ ل د kh-l-d 11 shared verses
- ج ر ي j-r-y 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).