Root z-y-n ز ي ن
The root z-y-n (ز ي ن) occurs 46 times in the Qur'an, the 214th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 43 verses across 28 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 46 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 214th ● |
| Verses containing it | 43 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 28 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 32 / 14 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 22 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 27 / 19 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.548445 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:212 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| زُيِّنَ | verb | 26 | 20 |
| بِزِينَةٍ | noun | 19 | 11 |
| وَٱزَّيَّنَتْ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- زُيِّنَ 9×
- زَيَّنَّا 4×
- وَزَيَّنَ 3×
- زَيَّنَ 2×
- زِينَةَ 2×
- زِينَةً 2×
- وَزِينَتَهَا 2×
- وَزَيَّنَّٰهَا 2×
- زِينَتَهُنَّ 2×
- بِزِينَةٍ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 4× · 3.04 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 2× · 1.399 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
- د ن و d-n-w 15 shared verses
- ح ي ي ḥ-y-y 13 shared verses
- ع م ل ʿ-m-l 15 shared verses
- ش ط ن sh-ṭ-n 6 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 8 shared verses
- ب ن ي b-n-y 5 shared verses
- س و ا s-w-a 5 shared verses
- ق ل ب q-l-b 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).