Root ḍ-r-b ض ر ب
The root ḍ-r-b (ض ر ب) occurs 58 times in the Qur'an, the 187th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 54 verses across 28 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 58 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 187th ● |
| Verses containing it | 54 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 28 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 30 / 28 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 21 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 28 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 55 / 3 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.510031 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ضَرَبَ | verb | 55 | 27 |
| ضَرْبًا | noun | 3 | 3 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ضَرَبَ 6×
- وَضَرَبَ 4×
- ٱضْرِب 3×
- ضَرَبُوا۟ 3×
- ضَرَبْتُمْ 3×
- يَضْرِبُونَ 3×
- يَضْرِبُ 3×
- وَٱضْرِبْ 3×
- ضَرَبْنَا 3×
- وَضُرِبَتْ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 5× · 0.818 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 4× · 2.169 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 4× · 4.819 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 3× · 2.433 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 3× · 3.614 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 3× · 1.9 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- Muhammad 3× · 5.566 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
- م ث ل m-th-l 29 shared verses
- ن و س n-w-s 11 shared verses
- ك ل ل k-l-l 12 shared verses
- ر ج ل r-j-l 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 29 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 7 shared verses
- ك ف ر k-f-r 12 shared verses
- ك ي ف k-y-f 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).