Root w-ḍ-ʿ و ض ع
The root w-ḍ-ʿ (و ض ع) occurs 26 times in the Qur'an, the 342nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 24 verses across 18 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 26 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 342nd ● |
| Verses containing it | 24 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 18 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 9 / 17 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 2 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 22 / 4 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.670416 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 3:36 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| يَضَعْنَ | verb | 21 | 15 |
| مَّوَاضِعِهِۦ | noun | 3 | 2 |
| وَلَأَوْضَعُوا۟ | verb | 1 | 1 |
| مَّوْضُوعَةٌ | adjective | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- يَضَعْنَ 3×
- مَّوَاضِعِهِۦ 2×
- وَوُضِعَ 2×
- تَضَعُ 2×
- وَضَعَتْهَا 1×
- وَضَعْتُهَآ 1×
- وَضَعَتْ 1×
- وُضِعَ 1×
- تَضَعُوٓا۟ 1×
- مَوَاضِعِهِۦ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- Al ʿImran 4× · 1.149 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 2× · 0.534 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nur 2× · 1.52 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Rahman 2× · 5.698 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Talaq 2× · 6.969 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 1× · 0.301 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 1× · 0.4 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Kahf 1× · 0.633 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 1× · 0.855 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
- ح م ل ḥ-m-l 6 shared verses
- ع ل م ʿ-l-m 7 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 12 shared verses
- ق و ل q-w-l 6 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 5 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).