Root ʿ-ṣ-y ع ص ي
The root ʿ-ṣ-y (ع ص ي) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 283rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 32 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 32 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 283rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 32 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 23 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 18 / 14 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 27 / 5 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.590648 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:61 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| عَصَوا۟ | verb | 27 | 20 |
| عَصِيًّا | adjective / noun | 2 | 1 |
| وَمَعْصِيَتِ | noun | 2 | 1 |
| وَٱلْعِصْيَانَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- عَصَوا۟ 3×
- يَعْصِ 3×
- عَصَيْتُ 3×
- وَعَصَيْنَا 2×
- وَمَعْصِيَتِ 2×
- وَعَصَيْتُم 1×
- وَعَصَوُا۟ 1×
- عَصَيْتَ 1×
- وَعَصَوْا۟ 1×
- عَصَيْتُهُۥ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 2× · 2.081 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mujadilah 2× · 4.237 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 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
- ع د و ʿ-d-w 6 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 8 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 10 shared verses
- غ ي ر gh-y-r 5 shared verses
- ت ب ع t-b-ʿ 5 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 7 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 10 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).