Root d-w-n د و ن
The root d-w-n (د و ن) occurs 144 times in the Qur'an, the 78th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 142 verses across 46 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 144 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 78th ● |
| Verses containing it | 142 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 46 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 109 / 35 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 28 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 80 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 35 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 144 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.362638 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| دُونِ | noun / location adverb | 144 | 46 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- دُونِ 83×
- دُونِهِۦ 22×
- دُونِهِۦٓ 14×
- دُونَ 8×
- دُونِهِمْ 2×
- دُونِكَ 2×
- دُونِى 2×
- دُونِهِمَا 2×
- دُونِهِ 2×
- دُونِكُمْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Kahf 10× · 6.333 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 8× · 2.135 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 8× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 7× · 5.988 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 6× · 3.273 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 6× · 6.148 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 6× · 5.119 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 5× · 2.608 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 5× · 2.711 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
- ا ل ه a-l-h 109 shared verses
- د ع و d-ʿ-w 35 shared verses
- و ل ي w-l-y 35 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 33 shared verses
- ع ب د ʿ-b-d 29 shared verses
- ن ص ر n-ṣ-r 20 shared verses
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 12 shared verses
- ش ف ع sh-f-ʿ 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).