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Root m-d-d م د د

The root m-d-d (م د د) occurs 32 times in the Qur'an, the 284th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 29 verses across 24 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences32 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots284th ●
Verses containing it29 ●
Surahs containing it24 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs25 / 7 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)2 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)12 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)11 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)7 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives23 / 9 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.653587 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:15 ●

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
تَمُدَّنَّverb1311
أَمَدَّكُمverb107
مَدًّاnoun21
مَّمْدُودًاadjective22
مَدَدًاnoun11
مِدَادًاnoun11
مُدَّتِهِمْnoun11
مُمِدُّكُمnoun11
مُّمَدَّدَةٍۭadjective11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • مَدَّ 2×
  • مَدَدْنَٰهَا 2×
  • تَمُدَّنَّ 2×
  • فَلْيَمْدُدْ 2×
  • مَدًّا 2×
  • أَمَدَّكُم 2×
  • وَيَمُدُّهُمْ 1×
  • يُمِدَّكُمْ 1×
  • يُمْدِدْكُمْ 1×
  • يَمُدُّونَهُمْ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. Maryam 4× · 4.162 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Hijr 2× · 3.053 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Kahf 2× · 1.267 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 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