Root a-r-ḍ ا ر ض
The root a-r-ḍ (ا ر ض) occurs 461 times in the Qur'an, the 13th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 440 verses across 80 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 461 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 13th ● |
| Verses containing it | 440 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 80 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 326 / 135 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 9 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 86 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 231 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 135 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 461 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.216355 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:11 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْأَرْضِ | noun | 461 | 80 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْأَرْضِ 219×
- وَٱلْأَرْضِ 108×
- ٱلْأَرْضَ 45×
- وَٱلْأَرْضَ 41×
- ٱلْأَرْضُ 23×
- وَٱلْأَرْضُ 8×
- أَرْضِ 2×
- أَرْضِنَآ 2×
- أَرْضِكُم 2×
- أَرْضُ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 24× · 3.924 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 21× · 6.325 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 17× · 9.274 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 16× · 5.706 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 16× · 5.246 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 14× · 17.136 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 13× · 3.735 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 12× · 7.712 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 12× · 10.239 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 11× · 2.936 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
- س م و s-m-w 224 shared verses
- ف س د f-s-d 31 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 64 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 215 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 74 shared verses
- م و ه m-w-h 23 shared verses
- س ي ر s-y-r 15 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 62 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).