Root dh-k-r ذ ك ر
The root dh-k-r (ذ ك ر) occurs 292 times in the Qur'an, the 29th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 264 verses across 71 of the 114 surahs, as 14 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 292 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 29th ● |
| Verses containing it | 264 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 71 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 216 / 76 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 80 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 109 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 76 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 154 / 138 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.301524 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:40 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَٱذْكُرْ | verb | 84 | 32 |
| ذِكْرًا | noun | 76 | 36 |
| تَذَكَّرُونَ | verb | 51 | 33 |
| وَذِكْرَىٰ | noun | 23 | 18 |
| ذَكَرٍ | noun | 18 | 11 |
| ذُكِّرُوا۟ | verb | 18 | 15 |
| تَذْكِرَةٌ | noun | 9 | 7 |
| مُّدَّكِرٍ | noun | 6 | 1 |
| لِلذَّٰكِرِينَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَٱلذَّٰكِرَٰتِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُذَكِّرٌ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَّذْكُورًا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَذَكَّرُونَ 17×
- ذِكْرًا 10×
- ذِكْرِ 10×
- وَٱذْكُرْ 10×
- ٱذْكُرُوا۟ 9×
- وَٱذْكُرُوا۟ 9×
- ذِكْرٌ 9×
- يَتَذَكَّرُونَ 7×
- ذُكِّرُوا۟ 7×
- وَذِكْرَىٰ 7×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 19× · 3.107 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 16× · 4.819 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 15× · 4.918 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 13× · 11.121 per 1,000 word-units
- Sad 13× · 17.735 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 11× · 32.164 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 8× · 2.853 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 8× · 5.993 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 7× · 4.433 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
- ا ن ث a-n-th 16 shared verses
- ل ب ب l-b-b 10 shared verses
- ن س ي n-s-y 12 shared verses
- ن ع م n-ʿ-m 18 shared verses
- ق ل ب q-l-b 19 shared verses
- ع ر ض ʿ-r-ḍ 12 shared verses
- ا و ل a-w-l 17 shared verses
- ص ل و ṣ-l-w 12 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).