Root a-n-s ا ن س
The root a-n-s (ا ن س) occurs 97 times in the Qur'an, the 116th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 93 verses across 52 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 97 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 116th ● |
| Verses containing it | 93 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 52 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 80 / 17 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 41 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 6 / 91 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.537287 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:60 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ | noun | 71 | 46 |
| وَٱلْإِنسِ | noun | 18 | 9 |
| ءَانَسْتُ | verb | 5 | 4 |
| إِنسِيًّا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُسْتَـْٔنِسِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَسْتَأْنِسُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ 27×
- ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ 27×
- وَٱلْإِنسِ 8×
- لِلْإِنسَٰنِ 6×
- ٱلْإِنسِ 4×
- ٱلْإِنسَٰنِ 4×
- ءَانَسْتُ 3×
- إِنسٌ 3×
- أُنَاسٍ 2×
- أُنَاسٌ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Isra 9× · 5.784 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rahman 6× · 17.094 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qiyamah 6× · 36.585 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 4× · 5.038 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 3× · 3.122 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 3× · 2.606 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Alaq 3× · 41.667 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 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
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 19 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 17 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 9 shared verses
- م س س m-s-s 7 shared verses
- ع ش ر ʿ-sh-r 5 shared verses
- ن ع م n-ʿ-m 9 shared verses
- ا م م a-m-m 8 shared verses
- د ع و d-ʿ-w 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).