Root ḍ-l-l ض ل ل
The root ḍ-l-l (ض ل ل) occurs 191 times in the Qur'an, the 51st most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 170 verses across 56 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 191 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 51st ● |
| Verses containing it | 170 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 56 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 141 / 50 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 8 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 47 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 86 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 50 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 117 / 74 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.322068 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:7 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يُضِلُّ | verb | 64 | 31 |
| ضَلَّ | verb | 53 | 27 |
| ضَلَٰلٍ | noun | 38 | 27 |
| ٱلضَّآلِّينَ | noun / adjective | 14 | 12 |
| أَضَلُّ | noun | 9 | 7 |
| ٱلضَّلَٰلَةَ | noun | 9 | 7 |
| مُّضِلٌّ | noun | 3 | 3 |
| تَضْلِيلٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ضَلَٰلٍ 24×
- ضَلَّ 18×
- يُضِلُّ 9×
- يُضْلِلِ 9×
- ضَلُّوا۟ 8×
- وَضَلَّ 8×
- يَضِلُّ 6×
- أَضَلُّ 6×
- ٱلضَّآلِّينَ 4×
- ضَلَٰلًۢا 4×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 17× · 4.537 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 12× · 3.934 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 11× · 3.313 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 8× · 8.959 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 7× · 1.145 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 7× · 5.973 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 6× · 2.14 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 6× · 7.229 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 6× · 3.254 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 6× · 3.856 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
- ه د ي h-d-y 52 shared verses
- س ب ل s-b-l 34 shared verses
- ف ر ي f-r-y 11 shared verses
- ب ع د b-ʿ-d 21 shared verses
- د و ن d-w-n 16 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 80 shared verses
- ب ي ن b-y-n 30 shared verses
- ه و ي h-w-y 7 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).