Root ḍ-ʿ-f ض ع ف
The root ḍ-ʿ-f (ض ع ف) occurs 52 times in the Qur'an, the 197th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 45 verses across 21 of the 114 surahs, as 11 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 52 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 197th ● |
| Verses containing it | 45 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 21 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 25 / 27 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 11 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 19 / 33 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.557266 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:245 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ضِعْفَيْنِ | noun / adjective | 11 | 7 |
| فَيُضَٰعِفَهُۥ | verb | 9 | 7 |
| ضَعِيفًا | noun / adjective | 8 | 6 |
| ٱسْتُضْعِفُوا۟ | verb | 8 | 3 |
| وَٱلْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ | noun / adjective | 5 | 2 |
| ضَعْفًا | noun | 4 | 2 |
| أَضْعَفُ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ضَعُفَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| ضِعَٰفًا | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمُضْعِفُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُّضَٰعَفَةً | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ضَعِيفًا 4×
- ٱسْتُضْعِفُوا۟ 4×
- فَيُضَٰعِفَهُۥ 2×
- ضِعْفَيْنِ 2×
- وَٱلْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ 2×
- ضِعْفًا 2×
- ضَعْفًا 2×
- يُضَٰعَفُ 2×
- ٱلضُّعَفَٰٓؤُا۟ 2×
- يُضَٰعَفْ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 8× · 2.135 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 6× · 0.981 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 5× · 1.506 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rum 4× · 4.896 per 1,000 word-units
- Saba 4× · 4.53 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 3× · 2.331 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 2× · 1.622 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 2× · 1.285 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
- ك ب ر k-b-r 9 shared verses
- ن س و n-s-w 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 26 shared verses
- ح س ن ḥ-s-n 7 shared verses
- ع ذ ب ʿ-dh-b 9 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 6 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 17 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).