Root kh-l-d خ ل د
The root kh-l-d (خ ل د) occurs 87 times in the Qur'an, the 129th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 86 verses across 40 of the 114 surahs, as 6 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 87 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 129th ● |
| Verses containing it | 86 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 40 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 43 / 44 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 1 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 15 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 27 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 44 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 4 / 83 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.395318 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:25 ● |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| خَٰلِدِينَ | noun | 74 | 33 |
| ٱلْخُلْدِ | noun | 6 | 6 |
| أَخْلَدَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| مُّخَلَّدُونَ | adjective / noun | 2 | 2 |
| تَخْلُدُونَ | verb | 2 | 2 |
| ٱلْخُلُودِ | noun | 1 | 1 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- خَٰلِدِينَ 43×
- خَٰلِدُونَ 24×
- ٱلْخُلْدِ 5×
- خَٰلِدًا 3×
- ٱلْخَٰلِدِينَ 1×
- أَخْلَدَ 1×
- ٱلْخُلْدَ 1×
- ٱلْخَٰلِدُونَ 1×
- وَيَخْلُدْ 1×
- تَخْلُدُونَ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-Baqarah 8× · 1.308 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Tawbah 7× · 2.802 per 1,000 word-units
- Al ʿImran 6× · 1.724 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nisa' 6× · 1.601 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Anbiya 5× · 4.277 per 1,000 word-units
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Furqan 4× · 4.479 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ma'idah 3× · 1.07 per 1,000 word-units
- Yunus 3× · 1.637 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 3× · 1.565 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
- ت ح ت t-ḥ-t 21 shared verses
- ج ن ن j-n-n 31 shared verses
- ج ر ي j-r-y 21 shared verses
- ن ه ر n-h-r 22 shared verses
- ن و ر n-w-r 23 shared verses
- ا ب د a-b-d 11 shared verses
- ص ح ب ṣ-ḥ-b 16 shared verses
- د خ ل d-kh-l 14 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).