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Root ṭ-w-ʿ ط و ع

The root ṭ-w-ʿ (ط و ع) occurs 129 times in the Qur'an, the 87th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 118 verses across 40 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences129 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots87th ●
Verses containing it118 ●
Surahs containing it40 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs56 / 73 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)5 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)19 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)32 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)73 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives119 / 10 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.455197 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:158 ●

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
وَأَطِيعُوا۟verb7227
يَسْتَطِيعُونَverb4222
طَوْعًاnoun44
طَاعَةٌnoun33
تَطَوَّعَverb21
لِيُطَاعَverb22
طَآئِعِينَnoun11
فَطَوَّعَتْverb11
ٱلْمُطَّوِّعِينَnoun11
مُّطَاعٍadjective11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • يَسْتَطِيعُونَ 15×
  • وَأَطِيعُوا۟ 13×
  • وَأَطِيعُونِ 11×
  • وَأَطَعْنَا 6×
  • يُطِعِ 6×
  • أَطِيعُوا۟ 5×
  • ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ 4×
  • طَوْعًا 4×
  • تُطِيعُوا۟ 4×
  • تُطِعْ 4×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Nisa' 13× · 3.469 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Kahf 10× · 6.333 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Shu'ara 10× · 7.587 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Nur 8× · 6.079 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Ahzab 7× · 5.439 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Ma'idah 5× · 1.783 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Anfal 4× · 3.244 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 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