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Root sh-d-d ش د د

The root sh-d-d (ش د د) occurs 102 times in the Qur'an, the 111th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 99 verses across 48 of the 114 surahs, as 5 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences102 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots111th ●
Verses containing it99 ●
Surahs containing it48 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs57 / 45 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)4 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)18 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)35 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)45 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives7 / 95 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.362324 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:74 ●

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
شَدِيدُadjective / noun5635
أَشَدُّnoun / adjective3118
أَشُدَّهُۥnoun88
سَنَشُدُّverb66
ٱشْتَدَّتْverb11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • أَشَدُّ 16×
  • شَدِيدُ 14×
  • شَدِيدًا 11×
  • شَدِيدٌ 9×
  • أَشَدَّ 8×
  • شَدِيدٍ 7×
  • أَشُدَّهُۥ 4×
  • لَشَدِيدٌ 3×
  • وَأَشَدَّ 2×
  • شَدِيدٌۢ 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
  2. Ghafir 6× · 4.922 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Anfal 4× · 3.244 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Hashr 4× · 8.989 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Ibrahim 3× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Isra 3× · 1.928 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