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Root ʿ-z-z ع ز ز

The root ʿ-z-z (ع ز ز) occurs 119 times in the Qur'an, the 96th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 116 verses across 47 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences119 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots96th ●
Verses containing it116 ●
Surahs containing it47 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs71 / 48 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)28 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)42 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)48 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives3 / 116 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.407278 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:129 ●

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
ٱلْعَزِيزُnoun / adjective10142
ٱلْعِزَّةَnoun118
أَعَزُّnoun33
وَعَزَّنِىverb11
فَعَزَّزْنَاverb11
عِزًّاnoun11
وَتُعِزُّverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱلْعَزِيزُ 39×
  • ٱلْعَزِيزِ 14×
  • عَزِيزٌ 12×
  • عَزِيزٌ 11×
  • ٱلْعَزِيزُ 7×
  • ٱلْعِزَّةَ 4×
  • ٱلْعَزِيزِ 4×
  • بِعَزِيزٍ 4×
  • عَزِيزًا 4×
  • ٱلْعِزَّةُ 3×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Shu'ara 10× · 7.587 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Nisa' 5× · 1.334 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Fatir 5× · 6.452 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Sad 5× · 6.821 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Anfal 4× · 3.244 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Ibrahim 4× · 4.819 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