Root ḥ-m-l ح م ل
The root ḥ-m-l (ح م ل) occurs 64 times in the Qur'an, the 169th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 50 verses across 29 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 64 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 169th ● |
| Verses containing it | 50 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 29 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 41 / 23 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 25 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 23 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 49 / 15 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.529642 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:248 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تَحْمِلُ | verb | 41 | 23 |
| حَمْلٍ | noun | 7 | 4 |
| تُحَمِّلْنَا | verb | 5 | 4 |
| حِمْلًا | noun | 3 | 3 |
| فَٱحْتَمَلَ | verb | 3 | 3 |
| ٱلْأَحْمَالِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فَٱلْحَٰمِلَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| بِحَٰمِلِينَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| حَمُولَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
| حَمَّالَةَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَحْمِلُ 4×
- حَمَلْنَا 3×
- تَحْمِلْ 2×
- يَحْمِلُونَ 2×
- حَمَلَتْ 2×
- يَحْمِلُ 2×
- حَمْلٍ 2×
- تُحْمَلُونَ 2×
- حَمَلَتْهُ 2×
- حَمْلَهُنَّ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 4× · 2.996 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 4× · 4.098 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Talaq 4× · 13.937 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 3× · 3.122 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 3× · 3.871 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jumu'ah 3× · 17.143 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
- و ض ع w-ḍ-ʿ 6 shared verses
- و ز ر w-z-r 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 11 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 6 shared verses
- ر ح م r-ḥ-m 5 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 6 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 5 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).