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Root ṭ-h-r ط ه ر

The root ṭ-h-r (ط ه ر) occurs 31 times in the Qur'an, the 299th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 26 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 11 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences31 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots299th ●
Verses containing it26 ●
Surahs containing it18 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs7 / 24 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)2 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)4 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)24 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives15 / 16 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.622632 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:25 ●

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
تُطَهِّرُهُمْverb98
مُّطَهَّرَةٌadjective55
يَتَطَهَّرُونَverb55
أَطْهَرُnoun44
طَهُورًاadjective22
ٱلْمُطَهَّرُونَnoun11
وَمُطَهِّرُكَnoun11
ٱلْمُطَّهِّرِينَnoun11
ٱلْمُتَطَهِّرِينَnoun11
تَطْهِيرًاnoun11
يَطْهُرْنَverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • مُّطَهَّرَةٌ 3×
  • وَأَطْهَرُ 2×
  • يَتَطَهَّرُونَ 2×
  • أَطْهَرُ 2×
  • طَهُورًا 2×
  • طَهِّرَا 1×
  • يَطْهُرْنَ 1×
  • تَطَهَّرْنَ 1×
  • ٱلْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ 1×
  • وَطَهَّرَكِ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Hud 1× · 0.522 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 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