Root ʿ-m-l ع م ل
The root ʿ-m-l (ع م ل) occurs 360 times in the Qur'an, the 19th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 313 verses across 68 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 360 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 19th ● |
| Verses containing it | 313 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 68 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 220 / 140 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 51 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 164 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 140 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 276 / 84 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.240144 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:25 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَعْمَلُونَ | verb | 276 | 66 |
| أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ | noun | 71 | 32 |
| عَٰمِلُونَ | noun | 12 | 9 |
| عَامِلَةٌ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَعْمَلُونَ 83×
- يَعْمَلُونَ 56×
- وَعَمِلُوا۟ 53×
- عَمِلُوا۟ 18×
- أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ 17×
- وَعَمِلَ 11×
- أَعْمَٰلُهُمْ 9×
- عَمِلَ 8×
- عَمَلًا 8×
- يَعْمَلْ 7×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 23× · 3.761 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 16× · 8.346 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 14× · 4.022 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 14× · 5.604 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 12× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 12× · 4.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 12× · 3.934 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 12× · 6.547 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 12× · 7.6 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 12× · 22.263 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
- ص ل ح ṣ-l-ḥ 93 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 101 shared verses
- ح ب ط ḥ-b-ṭ 16 shared verses
- س و ا s-w-a 42 shared verses
- خ ب ر kh-b-r 22 shared verses
- ج ز ي j-z-y 30 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 110 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 35 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).