Root ṣ-r-f ص ر ف
The root ṣ-r-f (ص ر ف) occurs 30 times in the Qur'an, the 306th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 29 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 30 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 306th ● |
| Verses containing it | 29 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 17 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 25 / 5 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 25 / 5 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.615754 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:164 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تُصْرَفُونَ | verb | 14 | 11 |
| نُصَرِّفُ | verb | 10 | 7 |
| وَتَصْرِيفِ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| صَرْفًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَصْرِفًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَصْرُوفًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱنصَرَفُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- نُصَرِّفُ 4×
- صَرَّفْنَا 3×
- وَتَصْرِيفِ 2×
- تُصْرَفُونَ 2×
- وَصَرَّفْنَا 2×
- صَرَفَكُمْ 1×
- يُصْرَفْ 1×
- صُرِفَتْ 1×
- سَأَصْرِفُ 1×
- ٱنصَرَفُوا۟ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 3× · 3.359 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 2× · 3.11 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 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
- ا ي ي a-y-y 9 shared verses
- ق ر ا q-r-a 5 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 8 shared verses
- ن ز ل n-z-l 6 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 7 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 8 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).