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Root q-ḍ-y ق ض ي

The root q-ḍ-y (ق ض ي) occurs 63 times in the Qur'an, the 175th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 59 verses across 29 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences63 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots175th ●
Verses containing it59 ●
Surahs containing it29 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs49 / 14 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)14 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)34 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)14 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives59 / 4 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.537088 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:117 ●

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
قُضِىَverb5928
مَّقْضِيًّاadjective21
قَاضٍnoun11
ٱلْقَاضِيَةَnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • لَقُضِىَ 6×
  • قُضِىَ 6×
  • قَضَىٰٓ 5×
  • وَقُضِىَ 5×
  • يَقْضِى 4×
  • قَضَىٰ 4×
  • لَّقُضِىَ 2×
  • وَقَضَيْنَآ 2×
  • مَّقْضِيًّا 2×
  • قَضَيْتُم 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. Yunus 6× · 3.273 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-An'am 4× · 1.311 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Maryam 4× · 4.162 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Taha 4× · 2.996 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Qasas 4× · 2.797 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Ahzab 4× · 3.108 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Ghafir 4× · 3.281 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Zumar 3× · 2.56 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 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