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Root th-q-l ث ق ل

The root th-q-l (ث ق ل) occurs 28 times in the Qur'an, the 324th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 26 verses across 19 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences28 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots324th ●
Verses containing it26 ●
Surahs containing it19 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs19 / 9 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)3 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)5 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)11 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)9 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives6 / 22 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.741933 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence4:40 ●

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
مِثْقَالَnoun86
أَثْقَالَكُمْnoun64
ثَقِيلًاadjective / noun55
ثَقُلَتْverb43
مُّثْقَلُونَnoun22
أَثْقَلَتverb11
مُثْقَلَةٌnoun11
ٱثَّاقَلْتُمْverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • مِثْقَالَ 6×
  • ثَقُلَتْ 4×
  • مُّثْقَلُونَ 2×
  • ثَقِيلًا 2×
  • ثِقَالًا 1×
  • أَثْقَلَت 1×
  • ٱثَّاقَلْتُمْ 1×
  • وَثِقَالًا 1×
  • مِّثْقَالِ 1×
  • ٱلثِّقَالَ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-'Ankabut 3× · 3.074 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Zalzalah 3× · 83.333 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Saba 2× · 2.265 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 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