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Root m-r-ḍ م ر ض

The root m-r-ḍ (م ر ض) occurs 24 times in the Qur'an, the 365th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 23 verses across 13 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences24 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots365th ●
Verses containing it23 ●
Surahs containing it13 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs3 / 21 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)2 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)0 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)21 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives1 / 23 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.701159 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:10 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
مَّرَضٌnoun139
مَّرْضَىٰٓnoun107
مَرِضْتُverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • مَّرَضٌ 11×
  • مَّرْضَىٰٓ 3×
  • مَّرِيضًا 2×
  • ٱلْمَرِيضِ 2×
  • مَرَضًا 1×
  • مَرِيضًا 1×
  • ٱلْمَرْضَىٰ 1×
  • مَرِضْتُ 1×
  • مَرَضٌ 1×
  • مَّرْضَىٰ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Tawbah 2× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Muhammad 2× · 3.711 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Anfal 1× · 0.811 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Hajj 1× · 0.785 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Shu'ara 1× · 0.759 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