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Root r-d-d ر د د

The root r-d-d (ر د د) occurs 59 times in the Qur'an, the 184th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 57 verses across 30 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences59 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots184th ●
Verses containing it57 ●
Surahs containing it30 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs35 / 24 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)7 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)27 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)24 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives45 / 14 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.404477 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:85 ●

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
يُرَدُّverb3620
يَرْتَدَّverb87
مَرَدَّnoun65
رَآدَّnoun32
لَمَرْدُودُونَnoun22
بِرَدِّهِنَّnoun22
بِرَآدِّىnoun11
يَتَرَدَّدُونَverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • يُرَدُّ 6×
  • مَرَدَّ 3×
  • يُرَدُّونَ 2×
  • يَرُدُّوكُمْ 2×
  • رُدُّوٓا۟ 2×
  • يَرْتَدَّ 2×
  • نُرَدُّ 2×
  • تُرَدُّونَ 2×
  • رُدَّتْ 2×
  • يَرُدُّونَكُم 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Nisa' 5× · 1.334 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Tawbah 4× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
  5. Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
  6. al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Al ʿImran 2× · 0.575 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Yunus 2× · 1.091 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