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Root q-ʿ-d ق ع د

The root q-ʿ-d (ق ع د) occurs 31 times in the Qur'an, the 298th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 26 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences31 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots298th ●
Verses containing it26 ●
Surahs containing it15 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs12 / 19 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)6 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)5 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)19 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives12 / 19 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.635915 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:127 ●

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
تَقْعُدُوا۟verb127
ٱلْقَٰعِدِينَnoun74
مَقَٰعِدَnoun44
وَقُعُودًاnoun44
وَٱلْقَوَٰعِدُnoun33
قَعِيدٌnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • ٱلْقَٰعِدِينَ 4×
  • مَقَٰعِدَ 2×
  • وَقُعُودًا 2×
  • تَقْعُدُوا۟ 2×
  • فَتَقْعُدَ 2×
  • ٱلْقَوَاعِدَ 1×
  • وَقَعَدُوا۟ 1×
  • ٱلْقَٰعِدُونَ 1×
  • قَٰعِدُونَ 1×
  • تَقْعُدْ 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Tawbah 8× · 3.203 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Nisa' 5× · 1.334 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-A'raf 2× · 0.602 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Isra 2× · 1.285 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Jinn 2× · 7.018 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Ma'idah 1× · 0.357 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-An'am 1× · 0.328 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Yunus 1× · 0.546 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