Root w-q-y و ق ي
The root w-q-y (و ق ي) occurs 258 times in the Qur'an, the 36th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 237 verses across 63 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 258 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 36th ● |
| Verses containing it | 237 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 63 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 116 / 142 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 45 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 62 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 142 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 182 / 76 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.343403 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:2 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَٱتَّقُوا۟ | verb | 166 | 42 |
| ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ | noun | 49 | 30 |
| ٱلتَّقْوَىٰ | noun | 17 | 13 |
| وَقِنَا | verb | 16 | 10 |
| تَقِيًّا | noun | 4 | 2 |
| وَاقٍ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| أَتْقَىٰكُمْ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| تُقَىٰةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَٱتَّقُوا۟ 38×
- ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ 23×
- تَتَّقُونَ 19×
- يَتَّقُونَ 18×
- فَٱتَّقُوا۟ 17×
- ٱتَّقُوا۟ 14×
- لِلْمُتَّقِينَ 11×
- ٱتَّقَوْا۟ 9×
- وَتَتَّقُوا۟ 8×
- لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ 7×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 37× · 6.05 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 23× · 6.607 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 20× · 7.133 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 17× · 12.898 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 11× · 3.313 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 9× · 3.603 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 9× · 7.679 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 8× · 4.338 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 7× · 2.295 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
- ا ل ه a-l-h 135 shared verses
- ط و ع ṭ-w-ʿ 19 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 55 shared verses
- و ع ظ w-ʿ-ẓ 7 shared verses
- ع ق ب ʿ-q-b 12 shared verses
- ب ر ر b-r-r 7 shared verses
- ن س و n-s-w 9 shared verses
- خ ي ر kh-y-r 18 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).