Root k-dh-b ك ذ ب
The root k-dh-b (ك ذ ب) occurs 282 times in the Qur'an, the 31st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 257 verses across 68 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 282 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 31st ● |
| Verses containing it | 257 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 68 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 211 / 71 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 26 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 71 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 114 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 71 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 187 / 95 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.43766 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:10 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| كَذَّبُوا۟ | verb | 176 | 52 |
| كَذِبًا | noun | 33 | 19 |
| ٱلْكَٰذِبِينَ | noun / adjective | 32 | 21 |
| لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ | noun | 21 | 11 |
| كَذَبُوا۟ | verb | 11 | 8 |
| كَذَّابٌ | adjective / noun | 5 | 3 |
| كِذَّابًا | noun | 2 | 1 |
| مَكْذُوبٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| تَكْذِيبٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- كَذَّبُوا۟ 37×
- تُكَذِّبَانِ 31×
- كَذَّبَ 21×
- كَذِبًا 15×
- كَذَّبَتْ 14×
- ٱلْكَذِبَ 13×
- لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ 12×
- وَكَذَّبُوا۟ 10×
- ٱلْكَٰذِبِينَ 10×
- لَكَٰذِبُونَ 9×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Rahman 32× · 91.168 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 21× · 6.885 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 19× · 5.723 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 12× · 6.547 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 12× · 9.105 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mursalat 11× · 60.773 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 10× · 5.423 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qamar 9× · 26.316 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 8× · 2.298 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mu'minun 8× · 7.619 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 و a-l-w 31 shared verses
- ف ر ي f-r-y 22 shared verses
- ا ي ي a-y-y 46 shared verses
- ج ي ا j-y-a 28 shared verses
- ك ي ف k-y-f 13 shared verses
- ر س ل r-s-l 34 shared verses
- ع ق ب ʿ-q-b 11 shared verses
- غ ر ق gh-r-q 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).