Root y-m-n ي م ن
The root y-m-n (ي م ن) occurs 71 times in the Qur'an, the 154th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 63 verses across 34 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 71 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 154th ● |
| Verses containing it | 63 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 34 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 40 / 31 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 22 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 31 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 71 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.549305 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:224 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْيَمِينِ | noun | 65 | 31 |
| ٱلْأَيْمَنِ | adjective | 3 | 3 |
| ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ | noun | 3 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْيَمِينِ 12×
- أَيْمَٰنِهِمْ 7×
- أَيْمَٰنُكُمْ 6×
- أَيْمَٰنِكُمْ 4×
- أَيْمَٰنُهُمْ 4×
- بِيَمِينِهِۦ 4×
- أَيْمَٰنَكُمْ 3×
- أَيْمَٰنَهُمْ 3×
- ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ 3×
- أَيْمَٰنُكُم 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ma'idah 7× · 2.496 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Waqi'ah 7× · 18.47 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 6× · 3.254 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 5× · 1.334 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 4× · 3.04 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 4× · 3.108 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 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
- ش م ل sh-m-l 7 shared verses
- م ل ك m-l-k 14 shared verses
- ص ح ب ṣ-ḥ-b 8 shared verses
- ق س م q-s-m 5 shared verses
- ج ه د j-h-d 5 shared verses
- ن س و n-s-w 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 33 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).