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Root ṭ-ʿ-m ط ع م

The root ṭ-ʿ-m (ط ع م) occurs 48 times in the Qur'an, the 208th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 41 verses across 26 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences48 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots208th ●
Verses containing it41 ●
Surahs containing it26 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs26 / 22 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)6 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)6 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)14 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)22 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives19 / 29 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.656554 (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
ٱلطَّعَامَnoun2416
وَأَطْعِمُوا۟verb139
طَعِمُوٓا۟verb54
إِطْعَامُnoun33
طَاعِمٍnoun11
طَعْمُهُۥnoun11
ٱسْتَطْعَمَآverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱلطَّعَامَ 5×
  • طَعَامُ 3×
  • طَعَامٌ 3×
  • طَعَامِ 3×
  • طَعَامٍ 2×
  • وَأَطْعِمُوا۟ 2×
  • يَطْعَمْهُ 1×
  • طَعَامِكَ 1×
  • ٱلطَّعَامِ 1×
  • وَطَعَامُ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Ma'idah 8× · 2.853 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Insan 3× · 12.346 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Furqan 2× · 2.24 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Ahzab 2× · 1.554 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Yasin 2× · 2.759 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Haqqah 2× · 7.752 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