Root w-l-y و ل ي
The root w-l-y (و ل ي) occurs 232 times in the Qur'an, the 42nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 202 verses across 55 of the 114 surahs, as 12 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 232 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 42nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 202 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 55 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 100 / 132 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 23 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 67 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 132 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 109 / 123 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.310792 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:64 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَوْلِيَآءَ | noun | 86 | 30 |
| تَوَلَّوْا۟ | verb | 78 | 34 |
| وَلَّوْا۟ | verb | 30 | 19 |
| مَوْلَىٰكُمْ | noun | 18 | 12 |
| أَوْلَىٰ | noun / adjective | 11 | 7 |
| مَوَٰلِىَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَلَٰيَتِهِم | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْأَوْلَيَٰنِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَمَوَٰلِيكُمْ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُوَلِّيهَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| وَالٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يَلُونَكُم | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَوْلِيَآءَ 27×
- تَوَلَّوْا۟ 19×
- وَلِيًّا 13×
- وَلِىٍّ 11×
- تَوَلَّىٰ 8×
- أَوْلِيَآءُ 7×
- تَوَلَّيْتُمْ 6×
- مَوْلَىٰكُمْ 5×
- أَوْلَىٰ 5×
- وَتَوَلَّىٰ 5×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 21× · 3.434 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 16× · 4.27 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 15× · 6.005 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 14× · 4.022 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 13× · 10.543 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 12× · 4.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 8× · 2.623 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 8× · 9.302 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 7× · 5.439 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
- د و ن d-w-n 35 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 124 shared verses
- ن ص ر n-ṣ-r 28 shared verses
- د ب ر d-b-r 17 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 29 shared verses
- ب ع ض b-ʿ-ḍ 12 shared verses
- غ ن ي gh-n-y 10 shared verses
- ط و ع ṭ-w-ʿ 13 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).