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).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 32 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 289th ● |
| Verses containing it | 21 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 13 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 16 / 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 adjectives | 22 / 10 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.735341 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:132 ● |
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 form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَصَّىٰكُم | verb | 11 | 7 |
| وَصِيَّةٍ | noun | 8 | 3 |
| تُوصُونَ | verb | 5 | 2 |
| وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ | verb | 5 | 3 |
| مُّوصٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَوْصِيَةً | noun | 1 | 1 |
| يُوصِينَ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● 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
- al-Nisa' 11× · 2.936 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Balad 2× · 24.39 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Asr 2× · 142.857 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 1× · 1.025 per 1,000 word-units
- 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
- و ل د w-l-d 7 shared verses
- ق ر ب q-r-b 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 9 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 11 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).