Root gh-ḍ-b غ ض ب
The root gh-ḍ-b (غ ض ب) occurs 24 times in the Qur'an, the 362nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 21 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 24 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 362nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 21 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 15 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 13 / 11 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 6 / 18 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.64029 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| بِغَضَبٍ | noun | 14 | 8 |
| وَغَضِبَ | verb | 6 | 6 |
| غَضْبَٰنَ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُغَٰضِبًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- بِغَضَبٍ 4×
- غَضَبٌ 4×
- وَغَضِبَ 3×
- غَضْبَٰنَ 2×
- غَضَبِى 2×
- غَضِبَ 2×
- ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ 1×
- غَضَبٍ 1×
- وَغَضَبٌ 1×
- ٱلْغَضَبُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 4× · 2.996 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shura 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fatihah 1× · 34.483 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 1× · 0.542 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
- ق ت ل q-t-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 14 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 5 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 5 shared verses
- ر ب ب r-b-b 7 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).