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Root n-d-w ن د و

The root n-d-w (ن د و) occurs 53 times in the Qur'an, the 196th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 50 verses across 26 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences53 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots196th ●
Verses containing it50 ●
Surahs containing it26 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs45 / 8 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)3 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)24 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)18 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)8 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives45 / 8 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.635377 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:171 ●

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
نَادَىٰverb4423
نَادِيكُمُnoun22
نِدَآءًnoun22
ٱلْمُنَادِnoun11
مُنَادِيًاnoun11
نَدِيًّاnoun11
فَتَنَادَوْا۟verb11
ٱلتَّنَادِnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • نَادَىٰ 7×
  • نُودِىَ 4×
  • يُنَادِيهِمْ 4×
  • وَنَادَىٰٓ 3×
  • وَنَادَىٰ 3×
  • وَنَادَوْا۟ 2×
  • وَنَٰدَيْنَٰهُ 2×
  • فَنَادَىٰ 2×
  • يُنَادَوْنَ 2×
  • وَنِدَآءً 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Maryam 5× · 5.203 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Qasas 5× · 3.497 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Anbiya 4× · 3.422 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Saffat 2× · 2.326 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Sad 2× · 2.729 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Ghafir 2× · 1.641 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Fussilat 2× · 2.519 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