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Root th-n-y ث ن ي

The root th-n-y (ث ن ي) occurs 29 times in the Qur'an, the 315th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 24 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences29 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots315th ●
Verses containing it24 ●
Surahs containing it18 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs18 / 11 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)4 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)13 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)11 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives2 / 27 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.602863 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:60 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
ٱثْنَيْنِnoun138
ٱثْنَتَيْنِnoun74
مَثْنَىٰnoun33
مَّثَانِىَnoun22
ثَانِىَnoun22
يَسْتَثْنُونَverb11
يَثْنُونَverb11

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱثْنَيْنِ 10×
  • ٱثْنَتَيْنِ 4×
  • ٱثْنَتَا 2×
  • مَثْنَىٰ 2×
  • ثَانِىَ 2×
  • ٱثْنَىْ 1×
  • ٱثْنَانِ 1×
  • ٱثْنَتَىْ 1×
  • ٱثْنَا 1×
  • يَثْنُونَ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
  10. 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order