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Root n-dh-r ن ذ ر

The root n-dh-r (ن ذ ر) occurs 130 times in the Qur'an, the 83rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 115 verses across 50 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences130 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots83rd ●
Verses containing it115 ●
Surahs containing it50 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs113 / 17 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)6 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)50 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)57 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)17 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives48 / 82 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.445124 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:6 ●

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
نَذِيرٌnoun5827
لِتُنذِرَverb4425
وَمُنذِرِينَnoun1513
ٱلْمُنذَرِينَnoun54
نَذَرْتُverb44
بِٱلنَّذْرِnoun22
نُذْرًاnoun11
نُذُورَهُمْnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • نَذِيرٌ 22×
  • وَنَذِيرًا 8×
  • وَنُذُرِ 6×
  • ٱلْمُنذَرِينَ 5×
  • نَّذِيرٍ 5×
  • وَمُنذِرِينَ 4×
  • لِتُنذِرَ 4×
  • لِّيُنذِرَ 3×
  • نَذِيرًا 3×
  • ٱلنُّذُرُ 3×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Qamar 12× · 35.088 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Fatir 7× · 9.032 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Yasin 6× · 8.276 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Ahqaf 6× · 9.331 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Shu'ara 5× · 3.794 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Kahf 4× · 2.533 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Furqan 4× · 4.479 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