Root w-r-y و ر ي
The root w-r-y (و ر ي) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 287th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 31 verses across 25 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 32 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 287th ● |
| Verses containing it | 31 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 25 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 20 / 12 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 7 / 25 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.566649 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:91 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَرَآءَ | location adverb / noun | 24 | 19 |
| يُوَٰرِى | verb | 4 | 2 |
| تَوَارَتْ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| فَٱلْمُورِيَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تُورُونَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَرَآءَ 7×
- وَرَآءِ 4×
- يُوَٰرِى 2×
- وَرَآءَكُمْ 2×
- وَرَآئِهِۦ 2×
- وَرَآئِهِم 2×
- وَرَآءَهُۥ 1×
- وَرَآئِكُمْ 1×
- فَأُوَٰرِىَ 1×
- وُۥرِىَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 2× · 1.905 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 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
- ظ ه ر ẓ-h-r 6 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 11 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 6 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 12 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).