Root a-ḥ-d ا ح د
The root a-ḥ-d (ا ح د) occurs 85 times in the Qur'an, the 131st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 82 verses across 33 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 85 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 131st ● |
| Verses containing it | 82 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 33 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 47 / 38 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 24 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 38 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 85 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.481405 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:96 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| أَحَدًا | noun | 74 | 30 |
| إِحْدَىٰهُمَا | noun | 11 | 8 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- أَحَدًا 19×
- أَحَدٍ 16×
- أَحَدٌ 12×
- إِحْدَىٰهُمَا 5×
- أَحَدَكُمُ 4×
- إِحْدَى 4×
- أَحَدُهُمَآ 3×
- أَحَدُكُمْ 2×
- أَحَدَهُمُ 2×
- أَحَدُهُم 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Kahf 10× · 6.333 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Jinn 6× · 21.053 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 5× · 1.783 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 5× · 2.002 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 4× · 1.068 per 1,000 word-units
- Yusuf 4× · 2.251 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 3× · 2.28 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Qasas 3× · 2.098 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
- ق و ل q-w-l 37 shared verses
- ح ض ر ḥ-ḍ-r 5 shared verses
- ش ر ك sh-r-k 9 shared verses
- م و ت m-w-t 9 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 41 shared verses
- و ج د w-j-d 7 shared verses
- ص و ب ṣ-w-b 5 shared verses
- ق ر ب q-r-b 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).