Root d-n-w د ن و
The root d-n-w (د ن و) occurs 133 times in the Qur'an, the 81st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 128 verses across 46 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 133 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 81st ● |
| Verses containing it | 128 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 46 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 72 / 61 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 54 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 61 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 2 / 131 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.294626 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:61 ● |
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 form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلدُّنْيَا | adjective / noun | 115 | 40 |
| أَدْنَىٰ | noun / adjective / time adverb | 12 | 10 |
| دَانِيَةٌ | noun / adjective | 3 | 3 |
| دَنَا | verb | 2 | 2 |
| دَانٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلدُّنْيَا 69×
- ٱلدُّنْيَا 41×
- ٱلدُّنْيَآ 5×
- أَدْنَىٰٓ 4×
- أَدْنَىٰ 3×
- وَأَدْنَىٰٓ 1×
- دَانِيَةٌ 1×
- ٱلْأَدْنَىٰ 1×
- أَدْنَى 1×
- ٱلْأَدْنَىٰ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 12× · 1.962 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 9× · 2.585 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 7× · 3.819 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 6× · 2.402 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 5× · 3.497 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 5× · 3.885 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 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
- ح ي ي ḥ-y-y 66 shared verses
- ا خ ر a-kh-r 57 shared verses
- م ت ع m-t-ʿ 18 shared verses
- ز ي ن z-y-n 15 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 28 shared verses
- غ ر ر gh-r-r 8 shared verses
- خ ز ي kh-z-y 8 shared verses
- ر و د r-w-d 14 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).