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Root w-z-r و ز ر

The root w-z-r (و ز ر) occurs 27 times in the Qur'an, the 337th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 14 verses across 11 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences27 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots337th ●
Verses containing it14 ●
Surahs containing it11 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs26 / 1 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)5 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)7 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)14 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives7 / 20 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.84881 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence6:31 ●

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
وِزْرَnoun129
تَزِرُverb76
وَازِرَةٌnoun55
وَزِيرًاnoun22
وَزَرَnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • تَزِرُ 5×
  • وَازِرَةٌ 5×
  • وِزْرَ 5×
  • أَوْزَارَهُمْ 2×
  • يَزِرُونَ 2×
  • وَزِيرًا 2×
  • أَوْزَارِ 1×
  • أَوْزَارًا 1×
  • وِزْرًا 1×
  • أَوْزَارَهَا 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Fatir 3× · 3.871 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Zumar 3× · 2.56 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Najm 3× · 8.333 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Furqan 1× · 1.12 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Muhammad 1× · 1.855 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Qiyamah 1× · 6.098 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