Quran Root Words > Root ʿ-n-d
The Arabic root ع ن د (ʿ-n-d) occurs 201 times in the Quran, in 2 different words, and is number 47 of the Quran's 1,642 roots by frequency. The most frequent word is عِند (ʿind), 197 times, followed by عَنِيد (ʿanīd), 4 times.
What the root ʿ-n-d means
The corpus dictionary gives no gloss for this root's words, so the meaning here comes from the word-by-word glosses of the MASAQ dataset, which most often render عِند (ʿind) as "with".
All three letters of ʿ-n-d, ع ن د, are consonants with no weak letter among them, and every word the Quran builds on the root keeps all three in the same order. In عِند (ʿind) and عَنِيد (ʿanīd) only the vowels and the added letters differ.
Every word from the root ʿ-n-d in the Quran
The Quran builds 2 different words on ʿ-n-d. 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. The Quran uses no verb from ʿ-n-d: all 201 occurrences are nouns, adjectives or participles.
| Arabic | Transliteration | Word type | Meaning | Occurrences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| عِند | ʿind | Nominal | "with" | 197 |
| عَنِيد | ʿanīd | Nominal | "obstinate" | 4 |
| ع ن د | ʿ-n-d | All words from ʿ-n-d | 201 |
Meanings in quotation marks are MASAQ word-by-word glosses, the others the corpus dictionary's, and the word types follow the dictionary. Every count on this page is a lemma count from the Quranic Arabic Corpus, version 0.4. We compared each of these 2 counts, and the root total of 201, with the corpus's own dictionary entry for ʿ-n-d, and all of them match.
The root ʿ-n-d in the verses of the Quran
Words from ʿ-n-d appear in 189 verses spread over 62 of the Quran's 114 suras. Sura 2 has the most of them, 21 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.
عِند (ʿind), 197 times
عِندَ سِدْرَةِ ٱلْمُنتَهَىٰ
Quran 53:14; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "near"
عِندَهَا جَنَّةُ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰٓ
Quran 53:15; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "near it"
وَعِندَهُمْ قَٰصِرَٰتُ ٱلطَّرْفِ عِينٌ
Quran 37:48; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "and with them"
عَنِيد (ʿanīd), 4 times
أَلْقِيَا فِى جَهَنَّمَ كُلَّ كَفَّارٍ عَنِيدٍ
Quran 50:24; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "stubborn"
وَٱسْتَفْتَحُوا۟ وَخَابَ كُلُّ جَبَّارٍ عَنِيدٍ
Quran 14:15; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "obstinate"
Learning the words of ʿ-n-d
عِند (ʿind), no. 55 with 197, is on our list of the 100 most common Quran words, which counts it the same way. The root ʿ-n-d 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.
Frequently asked questions
How many times is the root ʿ-n-d used in the Quran?
201 times, in 2 different words, according to the Quranic Arabic Corpus. The most frequent is عِند (ʿind), which occurs 197 times.
What does the Arabic root ع ن د (ʿ-n-d) mean?
The corpus dictionary gives no gloss for this root's words, so the meaning here comes from the word-by-word glosses of the MASAQ dataset, which most often render عِند (ʿind) as "with". The root gives the Quran 2 words in all.
Does the Quran use a verb from the root ʿ-n-d?
No. All 201 occurrences of ʿ-n-d in the Quran are nouns, adjectives or participles; the most frequent is عِند (ʿind).