Root r-w-d ر و د
The root r-w-d (ر و د) occurs 148 times in the Qur'an, the 76th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 120 verses across 47 of the 114 surahs, as 3 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 148 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 76th ● |
| Verses containing it | 120 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 47 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 78 / 70 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 23 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 50 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 70 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 147 / 1 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.381925 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:26 ● |
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 form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| يُرِيدُ | verb | 139 | 45 |
| رَٰوَدتُّهُۥ | verb | 8 | 2 |
| رُوَيْدًۢا | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يُرِيدُ 38×
- أَرَادَ 18×
- يُرِيدُونَ 13×
- أُرِيدُ 7×
- تُرِيدُونَ 5×
- يُرِدْ 5×
- أَرَدْنَآ 4×
- أَرَادُوٓا۟ 3×
- وَيُرِيدُ 3×
- وَيُرِيدُونَ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 16× · 4.27 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 11× · 3.923 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 9× · 6.294 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 8× · 4.502 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 7× · 3.652 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 7× · 5.439 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 6× · 3.8 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 5× · 4.055 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
- ا ل ه a-l-h 65 shared verses
- د ن و d-n-w 14 shared verses
- ت م م t-m-m 5 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 21 shared verses
- ا خ ر a-kh-r 14 shared verses
- ض ر ر ḍ-r-r 7 shared verses
- ن ف س n-f-s 14 shared verses
- ف ع ل f-ʿ-l 8 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).