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Root w-ḥ-d و ح د

The root w-ḥ-d (و ح د) occurs 68 times in the Qur'an, the 162nd most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 67 verses across 35 of the 114 surahs, as 4 lemmas (dictionary headwords).

Every occurrence Its words

At a glance

Occurrences68 ●
Rank among 1,642 roots162nd ●
Verses containing it67 ●
Surahs containing it35 of 114 ●
In Meccan / Medinan surahs49 / 19 ~
Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)1 ~
Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)14 ~
Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods)34 ~
Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods)19 ~
As verbs / as nouns and adjectives0 / 68 ●
Spread across surahs (DP, normalized)0.451165 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~
First occurrence2:61 ●

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
وَٰحِدَةًnoun / adjective3123
وَٰحِدٌadjective / noun3021
وَحْدَهُۥnoun65
وَحِيدًاnoun11

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

Most frequent written forms

  • وَٰحِدَةً 14×
  • وَٰحِدٌ 11×
  • وَٰحِدٍ 4×
  • وَٰحِدًا 4×
  • وَٰحِدَةً 4×
  • وَحْدَهُۥ 4×
  • وَٰحِدَةٍ 3×
  • وَٰحِدَةٍ 3×
  • ٱلْوَٰحِدُ 3×
  • وَٰحِدَةٌ 3×

● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.

Where it concentrates

  1. al-Nisa' 7× · 1.868 per 1,000 word-units
  2. al-Baqarah 4× · 0.654 per 1,000 word-units
  3. Sad 4× · 5.457 per 1,000 word-units
  4. Yusuf 3× · 1.688 per 1,000 word-units
  5. al-Nahl 3× · 1.627 per 1,000 word-units
  6. Yasin 3× · 4.138 per 1,000 word-units
  7. al-Zumar 3× · 2.56 per 1,000 word-units
  8. Ghafir 3× · 2.461 per 1,000 word-units
  9. al-Qamar 3× · 8.772 per 1,000 word-units
  10. al-Ma'idah 2× · 0.713 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