أ م ن (ʾ-m-n): Every Word From This Root in the Quran

Quran Root Words > Root ʾ-m-n

The Arabic root أ م ن (ʾ-m-n) occurs 879 times in the Quran, in 17 different words, and is number 5 of the Quran's 1,642 roots by frequency. The most frequent word is ءَامَنَ (āmana), 537 times, followed by مُؤْمِن (muʾmin), 202 times.

What the root ʾ-m-n means

The Quranic Arabic Corpus glosses the root's form I verb أَمِنَ (amina) as "to feel secure". Its other verbs are glossed there as follows: ءَامَنَ (āmana), form IV, "to believe" and ٱؤْتُمِنَ (iʾtumina), form VIII, "to be entrusted".

One letter of ʾ-m-n is a hamza, the glottal stop. Arabic writes a hamza on a seat chosen by the vowels around it (أ, إ, ؤ, ئ, or ء on its own), so words from a hamza root can look different from one another, as the root's words ءَامَنَ (āmana) and مُؤْمِن (muʾmin) do.

Every word from the root ʾ-m-n in the Quran

The Quran builds 17 different words on ʾ-m-n. The table lists them from most to least frequent, with the spelling the corpus gives each one, its word type, its meaning and its number of occurrences. Verbs make up 558 of the root's 879 occurrences, in forms I, IV and VIII.

Meanings in quotation marks are MASAQ word-by-word glosses, the others the corpus dictionary's, and the word types follow the dictionary. The Arabic is the corpus's, in the Quran's own spelling, so إِيمَٰن (īmān) keeps its small dagger alif. Every count on this page is a lemma count from the Quranic Arabic Corpus, version 0.4. We compared each of these 17 counts, and the root total of 879, with the corpus's own dictionary entry for ʾ-m-n, and all of them match.

The root ʾ-m-n in the verses of the Quran

Words from ʾ-m-n appear in 723 verses spread over 77 of the Quran's 114 suras. Sura 2 has the most of them, 63 verses. Below are the shortest verses in which the root's most frequent words occur, with the word marked. The text is the Uthmani text of Tanzil, and each reference opens the verse on quran.com with translations.

ءَامَنَ (āmana), 537 times

فَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
Quran 84:20; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "they believe"

فَبِأَىِّ حَدِيثٍۭ بَعْدَهُۥ يُؤْمِنُونَ
Quran 77:50; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "will they believe"

قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
Quran 7:121; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "we believe"

مُؤْمِن (muʾmin), 202 times

هُدًى وَبُشْرَىٰ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Quran 27:2; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "for the believers"

وَمَآ أَنَا۠ بِطَارِدِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Quran 26:114; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "the believers"

إِيمَٰن (īmān), 45 times

قُلْ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَتْحِ لَا يَنفَعُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِيمَٰنُهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنظَرُونَ
Quran 32:29; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "their belief"

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱشْتَرَوُا۟ ٱلْكُفْرَ بِٱلْإِيمَٰنِ لَن يَضُرُّوا۟ ٱللَّهَ شَيْـًٔا وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
Quran 3:177; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "with the faith"

Names of God from the root ʾ-m-n

One of the 99 names of God in the enumeration of at-Tirmidhi is built on ʾ-m-n. Our table of the 99 names of Allah with their roots lists all of them, each with an everyday word from the same root.

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Learning the words of ʾ-m-n

ءَامَنَ (āmana), no. 18 with 537 and مُؤْمِن (muʾmin), no. 52 with 202, are on our list of the 100 most common Quran words, which counts them the same way. Its verbs follow the patterns of the Arabic verb forms (forms I, IV and VIII), and our Arabic verb conjugator conjugates any root in any form, so you can see how ءَامَنَ changes for person and tense. The root ʾ-m-n is one of the 1,642 roots you can search in our Quran root word explorer; for the rest of the language, see our Arabic learning resources by level.

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