Root b-d-w ب د و
The root b-d-w (ب د و) occurs 31 times in the Qur'an, the 292nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 29 verses across 16 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 31 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 292nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 29 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 16 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 13 / 18 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 18 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 26 / 5 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.565963 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:33 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| تُبْدُوا۟ | verb | 15 | 10 |
| وَبَدَا | verb | 11 | 9 |
| وَٱلْبَادِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| بَادِىَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| بَادُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْبَدْوِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُبْدِيهِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تُبْدُوا۟ 4×
- وَبَدَا 4×
- تُبْدُونَ 3×
- تُبْدَ 2×
- بَدَا 2×
- يُبْدِينَ 2×
- تُبْدُوهُ 1×
- بَدَتِ 1×
- يُبْدُونَ 1×
- تُبْدُونَهَا 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 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-Zumar 2× · 1.706 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 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
- خ ف ي kh-f-y 11 shared verses
- س و ا s-w-a 9 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 15 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 8 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 10 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 16 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 12 shared verses
- ا م ن a-m-n 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).