Root d-b-r د ب ر
The root d-b-r (د ب ر) occurs 44 times in the Qur'an, the 220th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 44 verses across 31 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 44 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 220th ● |
| Verses containing it | 44 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 31 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 28 / 16 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 7 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 19 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 12 / 32 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.566964 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:111 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| دُبُرٍ | noun | 18 | 13 |
| مُدْبِرِينَ | noun | 8 | 7 |
| أَدْبَرَ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| دَابِرَ | noun | 4 | 4 |
| يَتَدَبَّرُونَ | verb | 4 | 4 |
| يُدَبِّرُ | verb | 4 | 3 |
| وَإِدْبَٰرَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| فَٱلْمُدَبِّرَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- مُدْبِرِينَ 5×
- يُدَبِّرُ 4×
- أَدْبَرَ 4×
- دَابِرَ 3×
- دُبُرٍ 3×
- ٱلْأَدْبَٰرَ 3×
- ٱلْأَدْبَارَ 2×
- يَتَدَبَّرُونَ 2×
- وَأَدْبَٰرَهُمْ 2×
- مُدْبِرًا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Anfal 4× · 3.244 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 3× · 5.566 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Muddaththir 2× · 7.843 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nazi'at 2× · 11.173 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 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
- و ل ي w-l-y 17 shared verses
- ق ط ع q-ṭ-ʿ 5 shared verses
- ا م ر a-m-r 8 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 5 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 13 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).