Root w-s-ʿ و س ع
The root w-s-ʿ (و س ع) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 288th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 29 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 32 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 288th ● |
| Verses containing it | 29 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 15 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 13 / 19 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 6 / 26 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.623641 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:115 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَٰسِعٌ | noun | 9 | 6 |
| سَعَتِهِۦ | noun | 6 | 4 |
| وَسِعَ | verb | 6 | 5 |
| وُسْعَهَا | noun | 5 | 4 |
| وَٰسِعَةٌ | noun / adjective | 4 | 4 |
| لَمُوسِعُونَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَٰسِعٌ 7×
- وُسْعَهَا 4×
- وَسِعَ 4×
- سَعَتِهِۦ 2×
- وَٰسِعَةٌ 2×
- ٱلْمُوسِعِ 1×
- سَعَةً 1×
- وَٰسِعَةً 1×
- وَسَعَةً 1×
- وَٰسِعًا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Talaq 2× · 6.969 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 1× · 0.952 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
- ك ل ف k-l-f 6 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 14 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 20 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 10 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 8 shared verses
- ف ض ل f-ḍ-l 5 shared verses
- غ ف ر gh-f-r 6 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).