Root d-ʿ-w د ع و
The root d-ʿ-w (د ع و) occurs 212 times in the Qur'an, the 43rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 182 verses across 55 of the 114 surahs, as 7 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 212 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 43rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 182 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 55 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 167 / 45 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 51 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 112 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 45 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 173 / 39 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.366533 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:23 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَدْعُونَ | verb | 170 | 52 |
| ٱلدُّعَآءَ | noun | 22 | 17 |
| دَعْوَةً | noun | 6 | 6 |
| دَاعِىَ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| دَعْوَىٰهُمْ | noun | 4 | 3 |
| ٱلدَّاعِ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| تَدَّعُونَ | verb | 3 | 3 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَدْعُونَ 23×
- تَدْعُونَ 16×
- ٱدْعُوا۟ 8×
- ٱدْعُ 6×
- يَدْعُوا۟ 5×
- وَٱدْعُوا۟ 4×
- يَدْعُوكُمْ 4×
- دَعْوَىٰهُمْ 4×
- تَدْعُوهُمْ 4×
- تَدْعُ 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Ghafir 18× · 14.766 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 15× · 4.518 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 10× · 5.456 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 10× · 6.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 9× · 2.951 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 6× · 7.229 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 6× · 4.196 per 1,000 word-units
- Fatir 6× · 7.742 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
- د و ن d-w-n 35 shared verses
- ج و ب j-w-b 17 shared verses
- ش ر ك sh-r-k 21 shared verses
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 13 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 88 shared verses
- ك ش ف k-sh-f 7 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 49 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 63 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).