Root a-w-y ا و ي
The root a-w-y (ا و ي) occurs 36 times in the Qur'an, the 257th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 36 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 36 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 257th ● |
| Verses containing it | 36 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 23 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 19 / 17 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 14 / 22 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.616079 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:151 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَمَأْوَىٰهُمْ | noun | 22 | 16 |
| ءَاوَوا۟ | verb | 9 | 6 |
| ءَاوِىٓ | verb | 5 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَمَأْوَىٰهُمْ 4×
- وَمَأْوَىٰهُ 3×
- مَأْوَىٰهُمْ 3×
- ٱلْمَأْوَىٰ 3×
- وَمَأْوَىٰهُمُ 2×
- ءَاوَوا۟ 2×
- ءَاوَىٰٓ 2×
- وَمَأْوَىٰكُمُ 2×
- فَـَٔاوَىٰكُمْ 1×
- مَأْوَىٰهُمُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Anfal 4× · 3.244 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Sajdah 2× · 5.376 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nazi'at 2× · 11.173 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 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
- ب ا س b-a-s 10 shared verses
- ص ي ر ṣ-y-r 7 shared verses
- ن و ر n-w-r 8 shared verses
- ن ص ر n-ṣ-r 6 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 7 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 11 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 14 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).