Root a-b-w ا ب و
The root a-b-w (ا ب و) occurs 117 times in the Qur'an, the 99th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 104 verses across 37 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 117 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 99th ● |
| Verses containing it | 104 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 37 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 93 / 24 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 64 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 117 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.480019 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:133 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ءَابَآءَنَا | noun | 64 | 32 |
| لِأَبِيهِ | noun | 46 | 15 |
| أَبَوَاهُ | noun | 7 | 4 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- لِأَبِيهِ 9×
- يَٰٓأَبَتِ 8×
- ءَابَآءَنَا 7×
- ءَابَآؤُنَا 6×
- ءَابَآؤُكُمْ 4×
- أَبِيكُمْ 4×
- يَٰٓأَبَانَا 4×
- ءَابَآءَنَآ 3×
- ءَابَآؤُهُمْ 3×
- ءَابَآءَكُمْ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yusuf 28× · 15.757 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 6× · 6.243 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 5× · 3.794 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 5× · 5.814 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 5× · 6.024 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 4× · 3.422 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
- ق و ل q-w-l 60 shared verses
- ا خ و a-kh-w 15 shared verses
- و ج د w-j-d 14 shared verses
- ا و ل a-w-l 14 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 40 shared verses
- ع ب د ʿ-b-d 16 shared verses
- ف ع ل f-ʿ-l 8 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 13 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).