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Root q-d-m ق د م

The root q-d-m (ق د م) occurs 48 times in the Qur'an, the 207th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 48 verses across 37 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences48 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots207th ●
Verses containing it48 ●
Surahs containing it37 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs29 / 19 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)4 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)9 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)16 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)19 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives35 / 13 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.491783 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:95 ●

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
قَدَّمَتْverb2723
أَقْدَامَنَاnoun88
يَسْتَقْدِمُونَverb44
ٱلْقَدِيمِadjective33
وَقَدِمْنَآverb22
تَقَدَّمَverb22
ٱلْأَقْدَمُونَnoun11
ٱلْمُسْتَقْدِمِينَnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • قَدَّمَتْ 14×
  • تُقَدِّمُوا۟ 4×
  • يَسْتَقْدِمُونَ 3×
  • أَقْدَامَنَا 2×
  • ٱلْقَدِيمِ 2×
  • قَدَّمَ 2×
  • قَدَّمْتُ 2×
  • وَقَدِّمُوا۟ 1×
  • ٱلْأَقْدَامَ 1×
  • قَدَمَ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Yunus 2× · 1.091 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Yusuf 2× · 1.125 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Yasin 2× · 2.759 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Sad 2× · 2.729 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Mujadilah 2× · 4.237 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 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