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Root f-s-d ف س د

The root f-s-d (ف س د) occurs 50 times in the Qur'an, the 201st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 47 verses across 23 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences50 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots201st ●
Verses containing it47 ●
Surahs containing it23 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs33 / 17 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)17 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)15 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)17 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives18 / 32 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.530504 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:11 ●

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
ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَnoun2112
تُفْسِدُوا۟verb159
ٱلْفَسَادَnoun118
لَفَسَدَتَاverb33

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

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ 10×
  • مُفْسِدِينَ 5×
  • تُفْسِدُوا۟ 4×
  • ٱلْفَسَادَ 4×
  • فَسَادًا 3×
  • يُفْسِدُونَ 3×
  • وَيُفْسِدُونَ 2×
  • بِٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ 2×
  • ٱلْمُفْسِدُونَ 1×
  • يُفْسِدُ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-A'raf 7× · 2.108 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Qasas 4× · 2.797 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Naml 3× · 2.606 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 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