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Root w-dh-r و ذ ر

The root w-dh-r (و ذ ر) occurs 45 times in the Qur'an, the 218th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 43 verses across 29 of the 114 surahs, as 1 lemma (dictionary headword).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences45 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots218th ●
Verses containing it43 ●
Surahs containing it29 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs36 / 9 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)5 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)9 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)22 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)9 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives45 / 0 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.557553 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:234 ●

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 formPart of speechCountSurahs
فَذَرْهُمْverb4529

● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.

Most frequent written forms

  • فَذَرْهُمْ 6×
  • وَذَرُوا۟ 4×
  • وَيَذَرُونَ 3×
  • وَتَذَرُونَ 3×
  • ذَرْهُمْ 2×
  • فَذَرُوهَا 2×
  • تَذَرُ 2×
  • تَذَرُنَّ 2×
  • لِيَذَرَ 1×
  • فَتَذَرُوهَا 1×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-An'am 6× · 1.967 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-A'raf 6× · 1.807 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Nuh 4× · 17.699 per 1,000 word-units
  4. al-Baqarah 3× · 0.491 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Muddaththir 2× · 7.843 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Al ʿImran 1× · 0.287 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Nisa' 1× · 0.267 per 1,000 word-units
  8. al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
  9. Yunus 1× · 0.546 per 1,000 word-units
  10. Hud 1× · 0.522 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

~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).

First verses, in mushaf order