Root ẓ-l-l ظ ل ل
The root ẓ-l-l (ظ ل ل) occurs 33 times in the Qur'an, the 280th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 31 verses across 20 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 33 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 280th ● |
| Verses containing it | 31 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 20 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 26 / 7 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 11 / 22 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.656342 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:57 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ظِلَٰلٍ | noun | 14 | 10 |
| ظَلَّ | verb | 9 | 8 |
| ظُلَلٌ | noun | 6 | 5 |
| ظَلِيلًا | adjective | 2 | 2 |
| وَظَلَّلْنَا | verb | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَظَلَّلْنَا 2×
- ظَلَّ 2×
- ظِلَٰلٍ 2×
- ظُلَلٌ 2×
- وَظِلٍّ 2×
- ظُلَلٍ 1×
- ظِلًّا 1×
- ظَلِيلًا 1×
- ظُلَّةٌ 1×
- وَظِلَٰلُهُم 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 3× · 2.276 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Waqi'ah 3× · 7.916 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mursalat 3× · 16.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 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
- و ق ي w-q-y 5 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).