Root th-l-th ث ل ث
The root th-l-th (ث ل ث) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 286th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 28 verses across 20 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 32 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 286th ● |
| Verses containing it | 28 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 20 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 14 / 18 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 32 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.603888 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:196 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ثَلَٰثَةَ | noun / time adverb | 13 | 10 |
| ثَلَٰثَ | noun / time adverb | 8 | 7 |
| ثُلُثَا | noun / time adverb | 6 | 2 |
| بِثَالِثٍ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَثُلَٰثَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلثَّالِثَةَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ثَلَٰثَةِ 2×
- ثَلَٰثَةَ 2×
- وَثُلَٰثَ 2×
- ثَلَٰثَةٌ 2×
- ثَلَٰثَةٍ 2×
- ثَلَٰثَ 2×
- ثَلَٰثَةَ 1×
- بِثَلَٰثَةِ 1×
- ثُلُثَا 1×
- ٱلثُّلُثُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Muzzammil 2× · 10.05 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 1× · 0.522 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
- ر ب ع r-b-ʿ 7 shared verses
- ث ن ي th-n-y 5 shared verses
- و ح د w-ḥ-d 6 shared verses
- و ل د w-l-d 5 shared verses
- م ل ك m-l-k 5 shared verses
- ي و م y-w-m 6 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 15 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).