Root a-l-f ا ل ف
The root a-l-f (ا ل ف) occurs 22 times in the Qur'an, the 378th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 19 verses across 12 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 22 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 378th ● |
| Verses containing it | 19 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 12 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 7 / 15 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 5 / 17 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.762591 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:96 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَلْفَ | noun | 14 | 9 |
| أَلَّفَ | verb | 5 | 3 |
| إِۦلَٰفِهِمْ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| وَٱلْمُؤَلَّفَةِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَلْفَ 4×
- ءَالَٰفٍ 2×
- أُلُوفٌ 1×
- فَأَلَّفَ 1×
- بِأَلْفٍ 1×
- وَأَلَّفَ 1×
- أَلَّفْتَ 1×
- أَلَّفَ 1×
- أَلْفًا 1×
- أَلْفٌ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Anfal 7× · 5.677 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Quraysh 2× · 117.647 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 1× · 0.76 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 1× · 1.025 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Sajdah 1× · 2.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 1× · 1.163 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
- س ن و s-n-w 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 8 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).