Root ṭ-w-f ط و ف
The root ṭ-w-f (ط و ف) occurs 41 times in the Qur'an, the 239th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 35 verses across 22 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 41 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 239th ● |
| Verses containing it | 35 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 22 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 14 / 27 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 10 / 31 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.609146 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:125 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| طَآئِفَةٌ | noun / adjective | 24 | 12 |
| وَيَطُوفُ | verb | 8 | 7 |
| لِلطَّآئِفِينَ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| ٱلطُّوفَانَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَلْيَطَّوَّفُوا۟ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| طَوَّٰفُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- طَّآئِفَةٌ 6×
- طَآئِفَةٌ 5×
- وَطَآئِفَةٌ 3×
- لِلطَّآئِفِينَ 2×
- طَآئِفَةً 2×
- طَآئِفَةٍ 2×
- يُطَافُ 2×
- وَيَطُوفُ 2×
- يَطَّوَّفَ 1×
- طَّآئِفَتَانِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saff 2× · 9.05 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qalam 2× · 6.667 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Insan 2× · 8.23 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
- ب ي ت b-y-t 7 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 15 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 11 shared verses
- ك ت ب k-t-b 6 shared verses
- ا خ ر a-kh-r 5 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 8 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).