Root ʿ-l-m ع ل م
The root ʿ-l-m (ع ل م) occurs 854 times in the Qur'an, the 6th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 728 verses across 85 of the 114 surahs, as 14 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 854 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 6th ● |
| Verses containing it | 728 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 85 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 495 / 359 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 32 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 130 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 333 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 359 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 425 / 429 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.180293 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:2 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَعْلَمُونَ | verb | 382 | 73 |
| عَلِيمٌ | adjective / noun | 163 | 43 |
| عِلْمٍ | noun | 105 | 43 |
| ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ | noun | 73 | 30 |
| أَعْلَمُ | noun / adjective | 49 | 25 |
| عَلَّمَ | verb | 41 | 18 |
| عَٰلِمُ | noun | 18 | 16 |
| مَّعْلُومٍ | noun / adjective | 11 | 7 |
| عَلَّٰمُ | adjective / noun | 4 | 3 |
| كَٱلْأَعْلَٰمِ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| مَّعْلُومَٰتٌ | adjective | 2 | 2 |
| فَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ | verb | 2 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَعْلَمُونَ 81×
- يَعْلَمُ 62×
- ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ 61×
- تَعْلَمُونَ 54×
- عَلِيمٌ 54×
- أَعْلَمُ 31×
- عِلْمٍ 27×
- ٱلْعَلِيمُ 22×
- عَلِيمٌ 19×
- عَلِيمٌۢ 18×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 102× · 16.678 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 44× · 14.426 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 40× · 11.491 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 33× · 18.571 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 32× · 12.81 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 29× · 10.342 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 28× · 8.434 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 28× · 15.184 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 27× · 7.206 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 25× · 18.968 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 ل ه a-l-h 408 shared verses
- ح ك م ḥ-k-m 71 shared verses
- غ ي ب gh-y-b 34 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 230 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 95 shared verses
- س م ع s-m-ʿ 44 shared verses
- ص د ر ṣ-d-r 19 shared verses
- ع ل ن ʿ-l-n 11 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).