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Root a-dh-n ا ذ ن

The root a-dh-n (ا ذ ن) occurs 102 times in the Qur'an, the 112th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 90 verses across 38 of the 114 surahs, as 9 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences102 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots112th ●
Verses containing it90 ●
Surahs containing it38 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs46 / 56 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)3 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)11 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)32 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)56 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives42 / 60 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.421026 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:19 ●

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
بِإِذْنِnoun3920
أَذِنَverb2317
ءَاذَانِهِمْnoun1813
يَسْتَـْٔذِنُكَverb123
أَذَّنَverb33
ءَاذَنتُكُمْverb22
مُؤَذِّنٌnoun22
تَأَذَّنَverb22
وَأَذَٰنٌnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • بِإِذْنِ 23×
  • بِإِذْنِهِۦ 8×
  • ءَاذَانِهِمْ 6×
  • أَذِنَ 5×
  • بِإِذْنِى 4×
  • ءَاذَنَ 3×
  • ءَاذَانٌ 3×
  • فَبِإِذْنِ 2×
  • تَأَذَّنَ 2×
  • يَسْتَـْٔذِنُكَ 2×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Tawbah 11× · 4.404 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
  3. al-Nur 9× · 6.839 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Ma'idah 7× · 2.496 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-A'raf 7× · 2.108 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Al ʿImran 5× · 1.436 per 1,000 word-units
  7. Ibrahim 5× · 6.024 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Hajj 4× · 3.14 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Yunus 3× · 1.637 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