Root ẓ-n-n ظ ن ن
The root ẓ-n-n (ظ ن ن) occurs 69 times in the Qur'an, the 160th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 57 verses across 32 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 69 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 160th ● |
| Verses containing it | 57 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 32 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 48 / 21 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 32 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 47 / 22 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.533656 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:46 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَظَنُّوٓا۟ | verb | 47 | 26 |
| ٱلظَّنَّ | noun | 21 | 13 |
| ٱلظَّآنِّينَ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلظَّنَّ 7×
- وَظَنُّوٓا۟ 6×
- يَظُنُّونَ 5×
- ظَنَنتُمْ 4×
- ظَنَّ 3×
- ٱلظَّنِّ 3×
- وَظَنَّ 3×
- ظَنَّ 3×
- أَظُنُّ 3×
- ظَنًّا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Yunus 6× · 3.273 per 1,000 word-units
- Fussilat 5× · 6.297 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fath 5× · 8.929 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jinn 4× · 14.035 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jathiyah 3× · 6.148 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Najm 3× · 8.333 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 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
- ت ب ع t-b-ʿ 9 shared verses
- ك ذ ب k-dh-b 9 shared verses
- ك ث ر k-th-r 7 shared verses
- ق ل ب q-l-b 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 25 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 12 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 7 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).