Root ʿ-w-d ع و د
The root ʿ-w-d (ع و د) occurs 63 times in the Qur'an, the 172nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 58 verses across 39 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 63 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 172nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 58 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 39 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 51 / 12 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 16 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 32 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 12 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 36 / 27 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.499383 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:275 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| عَادٍ | proper noun | 24 | 18 |
| يُعِيدُهُۥ | verb | 18 | 13 |
| عَادَ | verb | 18 | 11 |
| عَآئِدُونَ | noun | 1 | 1 |
| عِيدًا | noun | 1 | 1 |
| مَعَادٍ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- عَادٍ 6×
- يُعِيدُهُۥ 6×
- عَادٌ 5×
- عَادَ 3×
- عُدْنَا 3×
- وَعَادٍ 3×
- وَعَادٌ 3×
- لَتَعُودُنَّ 2×
- تَعُودُوا۟ 2×
- عَادًا 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 4× · 2.087 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 4× · 2.571 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anfal 3× · 2.433 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 2× · 2.41 per 1,000 word-units
- Taha 2× · 1.498 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hajj 2× · 1.57 per 1,000 word-units
- al-'Ankabut 2× · 2.049 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
- ب د ا b-d-a 10 shared verses
- خ ل ق kh-l-q 10 shared verses
- ن ه ي n-h-y 5 shared verses
- خ ر ج kh-r-j 7 shared verses
- م ث ل m-th-l 6 shared verses
- ك ذ ب k-dh-b 8 shared verses
- ق و م q-w-m 13 shared verses
- ا و ل a-w-l 6 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).