Root a-m-r ا م ر
The root a-m-r (ا م ر) occurs 248 times in the Qur'an, the 38th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 226 verses across 61 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 248 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 38th ● |
| Verses containing it | 226 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 61 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 153 / 95 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 41 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 109 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 95 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 79 / 169 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.281173 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:27 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَمْرًا | noun | 166 | 53 |
| أَمَرَ | verb | 77 | 33 |
| وَأْتَمِرُوا۟ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْءَامِرُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| إِمْرًا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| لَأَمَّارَةٌۢ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَمْرًا 17×
- ٱلْأَمْرِ 13×
- أَمْرُ 13×
- ٱلْأَمْرُ 12×
- أَمْرِ 9×
- بِأَمْرِهِۦ 8×
- أَمَرَ 7×
- ٱلْأُمُورُ 7×
- ٱلْأَمْرَ 7×
- أَمْرٍ 7×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 16× · 4.596 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 16× · 8.346 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 12× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 11× · 6.966 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 10× · 2.669 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 10× · 5.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 9× · 3.603 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Talaq 9× · 31.359 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 8× · 4.338 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 ض ي q-ḍ-y 24 shared verses
- ن ك ر n-k-r 13 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 112 shared verses
- ع ر ف ʿ-r-f 14 shared verses
- ن ه ي n-h-y 12 shared verses
- ف ع ل f-ʿ-l 16 shared verses
- ع ز م ʿ-z-m 5 shared verses
- ع ص ي ʿ-ṣ-y 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).