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Root dh-r-r ذ ر ر

The root dh-r-r (ذ ر ر) occurs 38 times in the Qur'an, the 247th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 36 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences38 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots247th ●
Verses containing it36 ●
Surahs containing it21 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs25 / 13 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)0 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)6 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)19 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)13 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 38 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.555228 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:124 ●

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
ذُرِّيَّةًnoun2817
ذَرَّةٍnoun64
وَذُرِّيَّٰتِهِمْnoun44

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

Most frequent written forms

  • ذَرَّةٍ 6×
  • ذُرِّيَّتِى 3×
  • ذُرِّيَّةً 3×
  • وَذُرِّيَّٰتِهِمْ 3×
  • ذُرِّيَّةِ 3×
  • ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ 3×
  • ذُرِّيَّةٌ 2×
  • ذُرِّيَّتِهِمَا 2×
  • ذُرِّيَّتِنَآ 1×
  • ذُرِّيَّةًۢ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-An'am 3× · 0.984 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Ra'd 2× · 2.345 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Maryam 2× · 2.081 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