Root z-w-j ز و ج
The root z-w-j (ز و ج) occurs 81 times in the Qur'an, the 136th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 72 verses across 43 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 81 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 136th ● |
| Verses containing it | 72 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 43 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 42 / 39 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 25 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 39 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 5 / 76 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.465634 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:25 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَزْوَٰجًا | noun | 76 | 40 |
| وَزَوَّجْنَٰهُم | verb | 5 | 5 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَزْوَٰجًا 14×
- زَوْجٍ 4×
- زَوْجَيْنِ 4×
- أَزْوَٰجٌ 3×
- زَوْجَهَا 3×
- أَزْوَٰجٍ 3×
- أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ 3×
- وَزَوْجُكَ 2×
- أَزْوَٰجِنَا 2×
- وَأَزْوَٰجُكُمْ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Ahzab 11× · 8.547 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 5× · 1.334 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 3× · 3.517 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 3× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 3× · 3.488 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tahrim 3× · 12.048 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 2× · 0.656 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 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
- ن ب ت n-b-t 6 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 14 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 15 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 16 shared verses
- ط ه ر ṭ-h-r 5 shared verses
- ا ن ث a-n-th 5 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 14 shared verses
- ن ب ا n-b-a 9 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).