Root a-f-k ا ف ك
The root a-f-k (ا ف ك) occurs 30 times in the Qur'an, the 301st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 29 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 30 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 301st ● |
| Verses containing it | 29 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 24 / 6 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 16 / 14 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.6869 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 5:75 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يُؤْفَكُونَ | verb | 16 | 14 |
| إِفْكٌ | noun | 9 | 6 |
| وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَةَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| أَفَّاكٍ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يُؤْفَكُونَ 6×
- تُؤْفَكُونَ 4×
- إِفْكٌ 4×
- يَأْفِكُونَ 2×
- أَفَّاكٍ 2×
- يُؤْفَكُ 2×
- وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَٰتِ 1×
- بِٱلْإِفْكِ 1×
- إِفْكًا 1×
- أَئِفْكًا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ahqaf 3× · 4.666 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Dhariyat 2× · 5.556 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 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
- ا ن ي a-n-y 9 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 6 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 5 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 14 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 11 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).