Root a-y-y ا ي ي
The root a-y-y (ا ي ي) occurs 382 times in the Qur'an, the 15th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 353 verses across 59 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 382 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 15th ● |
| Verses containing it | 353 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 59 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 289 / 93 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 90 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 196 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 93 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 382 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.306796 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:39 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا | noun | 382 | 59 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا 41×
- بِـَٔايَٰتِ 34×
- لَءَايَٰتٍ 29×
- ٱلْءَايَٰتِ 28×
- ءَايَةً 22×
- ءَايَٰتِ 21×
- ءَايَٰتِنَا 20×
- لَءَايَةً 20×
- ءَايَٰتِهِۦ 19×
- بِـَٔايَٰتِنَآ 16×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 32× · 10.492 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 29× · 8.735 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 24× · 6.895 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 23× · 3.761 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 18× · 9.82 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 17× · 20.808 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 14× · 10.622 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jathiyah 12× · 24.59 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 11× · 5.965 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 11× · 8.24 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
- ت ل و t-l-w 33 shared verses
- ك ذ ب k-dh-b 46 shared verses
- ج ح د j-ḥ-d 10 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 61 shared verses
- ف ص ل f-ṣ-l 16 shared verses
- ف ك ر f-k-r 10 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 67 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 38 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).