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Root a-h-l ا ه ل

The root a-h-l (ا ه ل) occurs 127 times in the Qur'an, the 89th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 120 verses across 40 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences127 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots89th ●
Verses containing it120 ●
Surahs containing it40 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs74 / 53 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)3 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)31 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)40 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)53 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 127 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.43896 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:105 ●

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
أَهْلِnoun12740

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

Most frequent written forms

  • أَهْلِ 23×
  • يَٰٓأَهْلَ 13×
  • أَهْلِهِۦ 8×
  • أَهْلُ 8×
  • أَهْلَ 8×
  • أَهْلَهَا 6×
  • وَأَهْلَهُۥٓ 5×
  • أَهْلَهُۥ 4×
  • أَهْلِهَآ 4×
  • أَهْلِهَا 4×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. Al ʿImran 13× · 3.735 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Nisa' 11× · 2.936 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Ma'idah 8× · 2.853 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-A'raf 7× · 2.108 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Yusuf 7× · 3.939 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Qasas 7× · 4.895 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Hud 6× · 3.13 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-'Ankabut 6× · 6.148 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Naml 5× · 4.344 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