Root ḍ-r-r ض ر ر
The root ḍ-r-r (ض ر ر) occurs 74 times in the Qur'an, the 147th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 70 verses across 31 of the 114 surahs, as 11 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 74 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 147th ● |
| Verses containing it | 70 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 31 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 43 / 31 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 0 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 10 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 33 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 31 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 29 / 45 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.386941 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:102 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلضُّرُّ | noun | 19 | 10 |
| يَضُرُّهُمْ | verb | 19 | 13 |
| ضَرًّا | noun | 10 | 10 |
| وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ | noun | 9 | 7 |
| ٱضْطُرَّ | verb | 7 | 5 |
| تُضَآرَّ | verb | 3 | 2 |
| بِضَآرِّهِمْ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ضِرَارًا | noun | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلضَّرَرِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مُضَآرٍّ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| ٱلْمُضْطَرَّ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ضَرًّا 9×
- ٱلضُّرُّ 5×
- ٱضْطُرَّ 4×
- وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ 4×
- بِضُرٍّ 4×
- يَضُرُّهُمْ 3×
- يَضُرُّوا۟ 3×
- ضُرٍّ 3×
- ضَرَّآءَ 3×
- ضُرٌّ 3×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 9× · 1.472 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 8× · 4.364 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 4× · 1.427 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zumar 4× · 3.413 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 3× · 0.801 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 3× · 0.904 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 3× · 2.566 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
- ن ف ع n-f-ʿ 17 shared verses
- م س س m-s-s 17 shared verses
- ك ش ف k-sh-f 9 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 47 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 21 shared verses
- د و ن d-w-n 12 shared verses
- د ع و d-ʿ-w 13 shared verses
- م ل ك m-l-k 12 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).