Root w-q-ʿ و ق ع
The root w-q-ʿ (و ق ع) occurs 24 times in the Qur'an, the 368th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 22 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 24 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 368th ● |
| Verses containing it | 22 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 21 / 3 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 13 / 11 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.752875 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 4:100 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَقَعَ | verb | 12 | 9 |
| لَوَٰقِعٌ | noun / adjective | 6 | 6 |
| ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| بِمَوَٰقِعِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُّوَاقِعُوهَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| لِوَقْعَتِهَا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يُوقِعَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَقَعَ 5×
- لَوَٰقِعٌ 3×
- وَاقِعٌۢ 2×
- فَقَعُوا۟ 2×
- وَقَعَتِ 2×
- ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ 2×
- يُوقِعَ 1×
- فَوَقَعَ 1×
- مُّوَاقِعُوهَا 1×
- تَقَعَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Waqi'ah 4× · 10.554 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Haqqah 2× · 7.752 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 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).