Root a-b-d ا ب د
The root a-b-d (ا ب د) occurs 28 times in the Qur'an, the 318th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 28 verses across 15 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 28 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 318th ● |
| Verses containing it | 28 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 15 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 5 / 23 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 4 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 23 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 28 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.762057 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:95 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَبَدًا | time adverb | 28 | 15 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَبَدًا 26×
- أَبَدًۢا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Tawbah 5× · 2.002 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 4× · 2.533 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahzab 2× · 1.554 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Fath 1× · 1.786 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hashr 1× · 2.247 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Mumtahanah 1× · 2.874 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
- خ ل د kh-l-d 11 shared verses
- ت ح ت t-ḥ-t 7 shared verses
- ج ر ي j-r-y 7 shared verses
- ن ه ر n-h-r 7 shared verses
- د خ ل d-kh-l 7 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 8 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 19 shared verses
- ع ظ م ʿ-ẓ-m 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).