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Root dh-n-b ذ ن ب

The root dh-n-b (ذ ن ب) occurs 39 times in the Qur'an, the 243rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 37 verses across 26 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences39 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots243rd ●
Verses containing it37 ●
Surahs containing it26 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs22 / 17 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)2 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)4 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)16 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)17 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 39 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.621371 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence3:11 ●

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
بِذُنُوبِهِمْnoun3725
ذَنُوبًاnoun21

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

Most frequent written forms

  • بِذُنُوبِهِمْ 7×
  • ذُنُوبَنَا 3×
  • ذُنُوبَكُمْ 3×
  • ذُنُوبِكُمْ 3×
  • ٱلذُّنُوبَ 2×
  • بِذُنُوبِ 2×
  • لِذَنۢبِكَ 2×
  • بِذَنۢبِهِمْ 2×
  • لِذُنُوبِهِمْ 1×
  • بِذُنُوبِكُم 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. Al ʿImran 7× · 2.011 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Ghafir 4× · 3.281 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Dhariyat 2× · 5.556 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 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