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).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 65 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 167th ● |
| Verses containing it | 63 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 37 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 51 / 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 adjectives | 0 / 65 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.563607 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:60 ● |
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 form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَعُيُونٍ | noun | 57 | 34 |
| عِينٌ | noun / adjective | 4 | 4 |
| مَّعِينٍۭ | noun / adjective | 4 | 4 |
● 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
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 3× · 2.276 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Dukhan 3× · 8.671 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 3× · 8.772 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- 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
- ق ر ر q-r-r 8 shared verses
- ح ز ن ḥ-z-n 6 shared verses
- ش ر ب sh-r-b 5 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 10 shared verses
- ز و ج z-w-j 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 9 shared verses
- ا م م a-m-m 5 shared verses
- ل ق ي l-q-y 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).