hapax legomenon in the qur’an: an analysis of the words that occurs only once within the text

hapax legomenon (pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax pl. hapaxes) is a word that occurs only once within a context either in the written record of an entire language in the works of an author or in a single text. the related terms dis legomenon tris legomenon and tetrakis legomenon respectively refer to double triple or quadruple occurrences but are far less commonly used. so qur’anic hapax is said to a word that occurs only once in the text of the qur’an such as ṣamad iram tasnīm zanjabīl yaqṭīn and so on. the present article is an attempt to find out a complete list of the hapax legomena in the text of the qur’an as well as analyzing the most important issues around them. the list mentioned above can be practically used for all future studies about the text and language of the holy qur’an