Root w-f-y و ف ي
The root w-f-y (و ف ي) occurs 66 times in the Qur'an, the 166th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 64 verses across 27 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 66 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 166th ● |
| Verses containing it | 64 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 27 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 35 / 31 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 28 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 31 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 61 / 5 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.433935 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:40 ● |
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 form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| نَتَوَفَّيَنَّكَ | verb | 24 | 16 |
| وَأَوْفُوا۟ | verb | 18 | 14 |
| تُوَفَّىٰ | verb | 18 | 11 |
| أَوْفَىٰ | adjective / noun | 2 | 2 |
| مُتَوَفِّيكَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| لَمُوَفُّوهُمْ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَٱلْمُوفُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يَسْتَوْفُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَأَوْفُوا۟ 5×
- أَوْفُوا۟ 4×
- نَتَوَفَّيَنَّكَ 3×
- يُتَوَفَّوْنَ 2×
- يُوَفَّ 2×
- تُوَفَّىٰ 2×
- وَوُفِّيَتْ 2×
- فَيُوَفِّيهِمْ 2×
- أَوْفَىٰ 2×
- وَتَوَفَّنَا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 5× · 2.711 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 3× · 2.56 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 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
- ك ي ل k-y-l 8 shared verses
- ع ه د ʿ-h-d 9 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 16 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 12 shared verses
- ب ل غ b-l-gh 6 shared verses
- ا ج ل a-j-l 5 shared verses
- ظ ل م ẓ-l-m 11 shared verses
- ا ج ر a-j-r 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).