Root ḥ-s-n ح س ن
The root ḥ-s-n (ح س ن) occurs 194 times in the Qur'an, the 49th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 177 verses across 50 of the 114 surahs, as 12 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 194 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 49th ● |
| Verses containing it | 177 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 50 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 121 / 73 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 30 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 84 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 73 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 24 / 170 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.304687 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:58 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ | noun | 38 | 19 |
| أَحْسَنُ | noun / adjective | 36 | 22 |
| حَسَنَةً | noun / adjective | 28 | 15 |
| أَحْسَنَ | verb | 21 | 17 |
| حَسَنًا | adjective / noun | 21 | 16 |
| ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ | noun / adjective | 17 | 15 |
| حُسْنًا | noun | 13 | 9 |
| إِحْسَٰنًا | noun | 12 | 8 |
| بِٱلْحَسَنَٰتِ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| حَسُنَتْ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| ٱلْحُسْنَيَيْنِ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| لِلْمُحْسِنَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ 30×
- حَسَنًا 17×
- أَحْسَنُ 15×
- أَحْسَنَ 8×
- حَسَنَةً 7×
- أَحْسَنَ 7×
- ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ 7×
- حَسَنَةٌ 6×
- أَحْسَنُوا۟ 5×
- إِحْسَٰنًا 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 13× · 3.469 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 13× · 7.05 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 9× · 2.585 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 9× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 8× · 4.502 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 8× · 6.826 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 7× · 2.802 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 7× · 4.499 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 7× · 4.433 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 و ا s-w-a 28 shared verses
- ج ز ي j-z-y 23 shared verses
- ا ج ر a-j-r 22 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 31 shared verses
- ق ر ض q-r-ḍ 6 shared verses
- ض ي ع ḍ-y-ʿ 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 86 shared verses
- ص ل ح ṣ-l-ḥ 19 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).