Root z-k-w ز ك و
The root z-k-w (ز ك و) occurs 59 times in the Qur'an, the 186th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 56 verses across 29 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 59 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 186th ● |
| Verses containing it | 56 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 29 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 25 / 34 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 34 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 21 / 38 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.551103 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:43 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ | noun | 32 | 19 |
| وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ | verb | 12 | 8 |
| تَزَكَّىٰ | verb | 8 | 6 |
| أَزْكَىٰ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| زَكَىٰ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| زَكِيًّا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| زَكِيَّةًۢ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ 24×
- أَزْكَىٰ 4×
- تَزَكَّىٰ 4×
- وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ 3×
- يُزَكِّيهِمْ 2×
- يُزَكِّى 2×
- وَٱلزَّكَوٰةِ 2×
- ٱلزَّكَوٰةِ 2×
- يَتَزَكَّىٰ 2×
- وَيُزَكِّيكُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 6× · 4.559 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 5× · 2.002 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 4× · 4.162 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 2× · 2.581 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
- ص ل و ṣ-l-w 28 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 29 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 27 shared verses
- ا خ ر a-kh-r 12 shared verses
- ب ع ث b-ʿ-th 5 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 12 shared verses
- ق ر ب q-r-b 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 28 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).