Root w-th-q و ث ق
The root w-th-q (و ث ق) occurs 34 times in the Qur'an, the 271st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 29 verses across 13 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 34 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 271st ● |
| Verses containing it | 29 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 13 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 7 / 27 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 32 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.672415 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:27 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| مِيثَٰقَ | noun | 25 | 9 |
| مَوْثِقًا | noun | 3 | 1 |
| وَثَاقَهُۥٓ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْوُثْقَىٰ | adjective | 2 | 2 |
| وَاثَقَكُم | verb | 1 | 1 |
| يُوثِقُ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- مِيثَٰقَ 5×
- مِيثَٰقَكُمْ 4×
- مِّيثَٰقًا 3×
- مِّيثَٰقٌ 3×
- مِيثَٰقِهِۦ 2×
- ٱلْوُثْقَىٰ 2×
- مِّيثَٰقَهُمْ 2×
- مِيثَٰقَهُمْ 2×
- بِمِيثَٰقِهِمْ 1×
- وَمِيثَٰقَهُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 2× · 1.554 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fajr 2× · 14.599 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 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
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 15 shared verses
- ن ق ض n-q-ḍ 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 21 shared verses
- ق ت ل q-t-l 5 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 8 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 5 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 8 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).