Root ʿ-j-l ع ج ل
The root ʿ-j-l (ع ج ل) occurs 47 times in the Qur'an, the 210th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 44 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 47 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 210th ● |
| Verses containing it | 44 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 25 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 37 / 10 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 23 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 31 / 16 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.536983 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:51 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ | verb | 19 | 13 |
| ٱلْعِجْلَ | noun | 10 | 6 |
| تَعْجَلْ | verb | 5 | 4 |
| عَجَّلْنَا | verb | 5 | 5 |
| ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| أَعْجَلَكَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| عَجَلٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| عَجُولًا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| تَعَجَّلَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| ٱسْتِعْجَالَهُم | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْعِجْلَ 6×
- تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ 6×
- وَيَسْتَعْجِلُونَكَ 3×
- ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ 3×
- عِجْلًا 2×
- يَسْتَعْجِلُ 2×
- بِعِجْلٍ 2×
- تَعْجَلْ 2×
- يَسْتَعْجِلُونَ 2×
- تَعَجَّلَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 4× · 2.182 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 4× · 2.996 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Dhariyat 3× · 8.333 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 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
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 10 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 9 shared verses
- و ع د w-ʿ-d 5 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 8 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 6 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 6 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 5 shared verses
- ق ب ل q-b-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).