Root ṣ-n-ʿ ص ن ع
The root ṣ-n-ʿ (ص ن ع) occurs 20 times in the Qur'an, the 410th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 19 verses across 14 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 20 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 410th ● |
| Verses containing it | 19 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 14 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 16 / 4 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 16 / 4 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.723621 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 5:14 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَصْنَعُونَ | verb | 15 | 10 |
| صُنْعًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| صَنْعَةَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَصَانِعَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَٱصْطَنَعْتُكَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَصْنَعُونَ 5×
- صَنَعُوا۟ 3×
- يَصْنَعُ 1×
- وَٱصْنَعِ 1×
- وَيَصْنَعُ 1×
- صُنْعًا 1×
- وَلِتُصْنَعَ 1×
- وَٱصْطَنَعْتُكَ 1×
- صَنَعُوٓا۟ 1×
- صَنْعَةَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Taha 4× · 2.996 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 1× · 0.952 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 1× · 0.76 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
- ك و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 7 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).