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Root ʿ-y-n ع ي ن

The root ʿ-y-n (ع ي ن) occurs 65 times in the Qur'an, the 167th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 63 verses across 37 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences65 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots167th ●
Verses containing it63 ●
Surahs containing it37 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs51 / 14 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)2 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)22 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)27 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)14 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 65 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.563607 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:60 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
وَعُيُونٍnoun5734
عِينٌnoun / adjective44
مَّعِينٍۭnoun / adjective44

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • وَعُيُونٍ 8×
  • عَيْنًا 6×
  • بِأَعْيُنِنَا 4×
  • عَيْنٍ 3×
  • أَعْيُنَهُمْ 2×
  • أَعْيُنٌ 2×
  • أَعْيُنِهِمْ 2×
  • عَيْنَيْكَ 2×
  • أَعْيُنُهُمْ 2×
  • عَيْنُهَا 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Shu'ara 3× · 2.276 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Dukhan 3× · 8.671 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Qamar 3× · 8.772 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order