Root y-w-m ي و م
The root y-w-m (ي و م) occurs 405 times in the Qur'an, the 14th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 377 verses across 75 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 405 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 14th ● |
| Verses containing it | 377 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 75 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 293 / 112 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 88 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 187 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 112 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 405 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.268028 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:4 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَوْمَ | noun / time adverb | 405 | 75 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَوْمَ 83×
- يَوْمَ 50×
- وَيَوْمَ 33×
- يَوْمِ 31×
- يَوْمٍ 28×
- ٱلْيَوْمَ 24×
- وَٱلْيَوْمِ 21×
- أَيَّامٍ 18×
- يَوْمًا 16×
- يَوْمُ 16×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 25× · 4.088 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 16× · 4.596 per 1,000 word-units
- Ghafir 15× · 12.305 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 14× · 7.303 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 13× · 13.528 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 12× · 4.804 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 11× · 3.313 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 11× · 5.965 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 10× · 3.566 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 10× · 3.279 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
- ق و م q-w-m 104 shared verses
- ح ش ر ḥ-sh-r 16 shared verses
- ج م ع j-m-ʿ 27 shared verses
- س ت ت s-t-t 7 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 48 shared verses
- ب ع ث b-ʿ-th 18 shared verses
- ا خ ر a-kh-r 38 shared verses
- ل ب ث l-b-th 11 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).