Root w-l-d و ل د
The root w-l-d (و ل د) occurs 102 times in the Qur'an, the 113th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 80 verses across 39 of the 114 surahs, as 8 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 102 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 113th ● |
| Verses containing it | 80 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 39 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 55 / 47 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 3 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 35 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 47 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 9 / 93 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.496834 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:83 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| وَلَدًا | noun | 56 | 26 |
| وَبِٱلْوَٰلِدَيْنِ | noun | 14 | 7 |
| بِوَٰلِدَيْهِ | noun | 10 | 7 |
| وَلَدَ | verb | 9 | 7 |
| وَٱلْوِلْدَٰنِ | noun | 7 | 5 |
| مَوْلُودٌ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| وَٰلِدَةٌۢ | noun | 2 | 2 |
| وَٱلْوَٰلِدَٰتُ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- وَلَدًا 13×
- وَلَدٌ 12×
- وَبِٱلْوَٰلِدَيْنِ 4×
- بِوَٰلِدَيْهِ 4×
- أَوْلَٰدُهُم 3×
- ٱلْوَٰلِدَانِ 3×
- أَوْلَٰدَهُنَّ 2×
- مَوْلُودٌ 2×
- أَوْلَٰدَكُمْ 2×
- وَٱلْوِلْدَٰنِ 2×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Nisa' 18× · 4.804 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 12× · 1.962 per 1,000 word-units
- Maryam 9× · 9.365 per 1,000 word-units
- Luqman 6× · 10.989 per 1,000 word-units
- al-An'am 5× · 1.639 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Isra 4× · 2.571 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 3× · 0.862 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 3× · 1.201 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ahqaf 3× · 4.666 per 1,000 word-units
- Nuh 3× · 13.274 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
- م و ل m-w-l 16 shared verses
- و ص ي w-ṣ-y 7 shared verses
- ق ر ب q-r-b 10 shared verses
- ا خ ذ a-kh-dh 15 shared verses
- ن س و n-s-w 7 shared verses
- ت ر ك t-r-k 6 shared verses
- ر ج ل r-j-l 7 shared verses
- ث ل ث th-l-th 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).