Root k-w-d ك و د
The root k-w-d (ك و د) occurs 24 times in the Qur'an, the 364th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 24 verses across 19 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 24 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 364th ● |
| Verses containing it | 24 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 19 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 16 / 8 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 24 / 0 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.616394 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:20 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَكَادُ | verb | 24 | 19 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَكَادُ 6×
- كَادُوا۟ 4×
- يَكَادُونَ 3×
- تَكَادُ 3×
- كَادَ 2×
- كِدتَّ 2×
- وَكَادُوا۟ 1×
- أَكَادُ 1×
- يَكَدْ 1×
- كَادَتْ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Isra 3× · 1.928 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 2× · 0.327 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 1× · 1.041 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 1× · 0.749 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
- ك ل ل k-l-l 6 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 5 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 11 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).