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Root w-ṣ-y و ص ي

The root w-ṣ-y (و ص ي) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 289th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 21 verses across 13 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences32 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots289th ●
Verses containing it21 ●
Surahs containing it13 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs16 / 16 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)2 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)4 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)10 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)16 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives22 / 10 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.735341 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:132 ●

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
وَصَّىٰكُمverb117
وَصِيَّةٍnoun83
تُوصُونَverb52
وَتَوَاصَوْا۟verb53
مُّوصٍnoun11
تَوْصِيَةًnoun11
يُوصِينَverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • وَصِيَّةٍ 4×
  • وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ 4×
  • وَصَّىٰكُم 3×
  • وَوَصَّيْنَا 3×
  • وَصِيَّةً 2×
  • وَصَّيْنَا 2×
  • وَوَصَّىٰ 1×
  • ٱلْوَصِيَّةُ 1×
  • مُّوصٍ 1×
  • يُوصِيكُمُ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Nisa' 11× · 2.936 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Shura 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Balad 2× · 24.39 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-'Asr 2× · 142.857 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Maryam 1× · 1.041 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-'Ankabut 1× · 1.025 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Luqman 1× · 1.832 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