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Root dh-l-l ذ ل ل

The root dh-l-l (ذ ل ل) occurs 24 times in the Qur'an, the 357th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 23 verses across 17 of the 114 surahs, as 10 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences24 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots357th ●
Verses containing it23 ●
Surahs containing it17 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs14 / 10 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)5 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)8 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)10 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives4 / 20 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.65556 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:61 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
ذِلَّةٌnoun76
أَذِلَّةًadjective / noun43
ٱلذُّلِّnoun32
ذَلُولًاadjective / noun22
وَذَلَّلْنَٰهَاverb22
ٱلْأَذَلَّnoun22
ذُلُلًاnoun11
نَّذِلَّverb11
تَذْلِيلًاnoun11
وَتُذِلُّverb11

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • ذِلَّةٌ 4×
  • ٱلذُّلِّ 3×
  • ٱلذِّلَّةُ 2×
  • ذَلُولٌ 1×
  • وَتُذِلُّ 1×
  • أَذِلَّةٌ 1×
  • أَذِلَّةٍ 1×
  • وَذِلَّةٌ 1×
  • ذُلُلًا 1×
  • نَّذِلَّ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Naml 2× · 1.738 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Insan 2× · 8.23 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Taha 1× · 0.749 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order