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Root ḥ-r-m ح ر م

The root ḥ-r-m (ح ر م) occurs 83 times in the Qur'an, the 133rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 71 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences83 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots133rd ●
Verses containing it71 ●
Surahs containing it25 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs35 / 48 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)9 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)25 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)48 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives39 / 44 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.522097 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:85 ●

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
حَرَّمَverb3914
ٱلْحَرَامِadjective / noun3312
مَحْرُومُونَnoun44
مُحَرَّمًاnoun43
حُرُمَٰتِnoun22
مُحَرَّمَةٌnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • حَرَّمَ 17×
  • ٱلْحَرَامِ 10×
  • حَرَّمْنَا 6×
  • ٱلْحَرَامِ 6×
  • ٱلْحَرَامَ 4×
  • حُرِّمَتْ 3×
  • حُرُمٌ 2×
  • وَحُرِّمَ 2×
  • ٱلْحَرَامَ 2×
  • حَرَمًا 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 14× · 2.289 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Ma'idah 13× · 4.636 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-An'am 13× · 4.262 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Tawbah 10× · 4.003 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 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