Root ṣ-l-w ص ل و
The root ṣ-l-w (ص ل و) occurs 99 times in the Qur'an, the 115th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 90 verses across 37 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 99 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 115th ● |
| Verses containing it | 90 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 37 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 40 / 59 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 23 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 59 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 12 / 87 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.480535 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:3 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ | noun | 83 | 31 |
| يُصَلِّى | verb | 12 | 8 |
| ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| مُصَلًّى | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ 47×
- ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ 10×
- صَلَاتِهِمْ 5×
- وَٱلصَّلَوٰةِ 3×
- بِٱلصَّلَوٰةِ 3×
- يُصَلِّى 2×
- صَلَوٰةِ 2×
- ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ 2×
- مُصَلًّى 1×
- صَلَوَٰتٌ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 12× · 1.962 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 11× · 2.936 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 9× · 3.603 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 5× · 3.799 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 4× · 3.14 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 4× · 3.108 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 3× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 3× · 3.122 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
- ز ك و z-k-w 28 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 52 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 27 shared verses
- ن ف ق n-f-q 10 shared verses
- ر ز ق r-z-q 9 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 44 shared verses
- ا خ ر a-kh-r 12 shared verses
- ق ر ب q-r-b 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).