Root ʿ-l-w ع ل و
The root ʿ-l-w (ع ل و) occurs 70 times in the Qur'an, the 155th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 68 verses across 41 of the 114 surahs, as 14 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 70 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 155th ● |
| Verses containing it | 68 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 41 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 55 / 15 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 35 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 29 / 41 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.498293 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:255 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَتَعَٰلَىٰ | verb | 20 | 13 |
| ٱلْعَلِىُّ | noun / adjective | 11 | 9 |
| ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ | noun / adjective | 9 | 9 |
| تَعَالَوْا۟ | verb | 8 | 6 |
| عَٰلِيَهَا | noun | 4 | 4 |
| عُلُوًّا | noun | 4 | 3 |
| ٱلْعُلَى | adjective / noun | 3 | 2 |
| ٱلْأَعْلَوْنَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| عَالِيَةٍ | adjective | 2 | 2 |
| عَالِينَ | adjective / noun | 2 | 2 |
| عِلِّيُّونَ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| لَعَالٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَعَالَوْا۟ 7×
- وَتَعَٰلَىٰ 7×
- ٱلْعَلِىُّ 5×
- ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ 5×
- فَتَعَٰلَى 3×
- عُلُوًّا 3×
- ٱلْأَعْلَوْنَ 2×
- عَٰلِيَهَا 2×
- تَعَٰلَىٰ 2×
- عَلِيًّا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Isra 5× · 3.213 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 5× · 3.745 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 4× · 3.81 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 3× · 2.606 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 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
- ش ر ك sh-r-k 13 shared verses
- س ب ح s-b-ḥ 9 shared verses
- ك ب ر k-b-r 11 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 8 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 9 shared verses
- ح ق ق ḥ-q-q 8 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 11 shared verses
- ح ك م ḥ-k-m 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).