Root ʿ-b-d ع ب د
The root ʿ-b-d (ع ب د) occurs 275 times in the Qur'an, the 33rd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 251 verses across 57 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 275 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 33rd ● |
| Verses containing it | 251 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 57 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 227 / 48 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 14 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 63 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 150 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 48 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 123 / 152 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.372491 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 1:5 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| عِبَادِهِۦ | noun | 131 | 48 |
| تَعْبُدُونَ | verb | 122 | 43 |
| عَٰبِدُونَ | noun / adjective | 11 | 6 |
| عِبَادَتِهِۦ | noun | 9 | 8 |
| عَٰبِدَٰتٍ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
| عَبَّدتَّ | verb | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- تَعْبُدُونَ 20×
- ٱعْبُدُوا۟ 17×
- عِبَادِهِۦ 17×
- عِبَادِنَا 9×
- يَعْبُدُ 8×
- أَعْبُدُ 8×
- يَعْبُدُونَ 8×
- عِبَادِى 6×
- عَبْدًا 6×
- تَعْبُدُوٓا۟ 6×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Zumar 16× · 13.652 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Saffat 14× · 16.279 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 13× · 2.126 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 12× · 6.26 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 12× · 12.487 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 12× · 10.265 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 10× · 3.012 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 9× · 5.784 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Zukhruf 9× · 10.843 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 8× · 4.364 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
- ا ل ه a-l-h 134 shared verses
- د و ن d-w-n 29 shared verses
- خ ل ص kh-l-ṣ 14 shared verses
- ا ب و a-b-w 16 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 85 shared verses
- ش ي ا sh-y-a 37 shared verses
- ر ز ق r-z-q 14 shared verses
- ب س ط b-s-ṭ 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).