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Root kh-s-r خ س ر

The root kh-s-r (خ س ر) occurs 65 times in the Qur'an, the 168th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 60 verses across 35 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences65 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots168th ●
Verses containing it60 ●
Surahs containing it35 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs46 / 19 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)11 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)34 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)19 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives18 / 47 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.444064 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:27 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَnoun3218
خَسِرُوٓا۟verb1611
ٱلْأَخْسَرُونَnoun44
خَسَارًاnoun33
ٱلْخُسْرَانُnoun33
خُسْرًاnoun22
تُخْسِرُوا۟verb22
ٱلْمُخْسِرِينَnoun11
تَخْسِيرٍnoun11
خَاسِرَةٌadjective11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ 13×
  • ٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ 11×
  • خَسِرُوٓا۟ 8×
  • خَٰسِرِينَ 5×
  • خَسِرَ 5×
  • لَّخَٰسِرُونَ 3×
  • خَسَارًا 3×
  • ٱلْأَخْسَرُونَ 2×
  • ٱلْخُسْرَانُ 2×
  • وَخَسِرَ 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Zumar 5× · 4.266 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 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