Root a-l-m ا ل م
The root a-l-m (ا ل م) occurs 75 times in the Qur'an, the 145th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 73 verses across 42 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 75 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 145th ● |
| Verses containing it | 73 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 42 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 36 / 39 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 31 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 39 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 3 / 72 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.411583 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:10 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَلِيمٌ | adjective | 72 | 42 |
| تَأْلَمُونَ | verb | 3 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَلِيمٌ 35×
- أَلِيمٍ 14×
- أَلِيمًا 13×
- ٱلْأَلِيمَ 4×
- أَلِيمٌۢ 3×
- تَأْلَمُونَ 2×
- يَأْلَمُونَ 1×
- ٱلْأَلِيمُ 1×
- ٱلْأَلِيمِ 1×
- أَلِيمًۢا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 7× · 2.802 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fath 3× · 5.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 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
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 70 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 22 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 11 shared verses
- ب ش ر b-sh-r 7 shared verses
- م س س m-s-s 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 36 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 18 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).