Root y-s-r ي س ر
The root y-s-r (ي س ر) occurs 44 times in the Qur'an, the 223rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 40 verses across 27 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 44 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 223rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 40 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 27 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 27 / 17 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 15 / 29 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.63559 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:185 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَسِيرًا | adjective / noun | 15 | 12 |
| يَسَّرْنَا | verb | 11 | 7 |
| يُسْرًا | noun | 7 | 5 |
| وَٱلْمَيْسِرِ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| تَيَسَّرَ | verb | 2 | 1 |
| لِلْيُسْرَىٰ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱسْتَيْسَرَ | verb | 2 | 1 |
| مَيْسَرَةٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَّيْسُورًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَسِيرٌ 6×
- يُسْرًا 6×
- يَسِيرًا 4×
- يَسَّرْنَا 4×
- يَسِيرًا 3×
- ٱسْتَيْسَرَ 2×
- وَٱلْمَيْسِرِ 2×
- يَسَّرْنَٰهُ 2×
- تَيَسَّرَ 2×
- لِلْيُسْرَىٰ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 4× · 11.696 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Layl 3× · 42.254 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Talaq 2× · 6.969 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Muzzammil 2× · 10.05 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'la 2× · 27.778 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Sharh 2× · 74.074 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
- ع س ر ʿ-s-r 6 shared verses
- ق ر ا q-r-a 6 shared verses
- ذ ك ر dh-k-r 6 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 16 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 8 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).