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Root w-r-th و ر ث

The root w-r-th (و ر ث) occurs 35 times in the Qur'an, the 268th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 34 verses across 20 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences35 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots268th ●
Verses containing it34 ●
Surahs containing it20 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs27 / 8 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)16 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)10 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)8 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives25 / 10 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.658798 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:233 ●

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
يَرِثُونَverb136
أُورِثْتُمُوهَاverb1210
ٱلْوَٰرِثِينَnoun76
مِيرَٰثُnoun22
ٱلتُّرَاثَnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱلْوَٰرِثِينَ 3×
  • مِيرَٰثُ 2×
  • أُورِثْتُمُوهَا 2×
  • يَرِثُونَ 2×
  • وَأَوْرَثْنَا 2×
  • ٱلْوَٰرِثُونَ 2×
  • وَأَوْرَثْنَٰهَا 2×
  • ٱلْوَارِثِ 1×
  • وَوَرِثَهُۥٓ 1×
  • يُورَثُ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Maryam 5× · 5.203 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Anbiya 2× · 1.711 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Qasas 2× · 1.399 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 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