ج ن ن (j-n-n): Every Word From This Root in the Quran

Quran Root Words > Root j-n-n

The Arabic root ج ن ن (j-n-n) occurs 201 times in the Quran, in 8 different words, and is number 46 of the Quran's 1,642 roots by frequency. The most frequent word is جَنَّة (janna), 147 times, followed by جِنّ (jinn), 22 times.

What the root j-n-n means

The Quranic Arabic Corpus glosses the root's form I verb جَنَّ (janna) as "to cover". In the MASAQ word-by-word glosses, جَنَّة (janna) is most often rendered "gardens".

The second and third letters of j-n-n are the same letter, ن. In many words the two are written as one letter with a shadda, the mark that doubles a consonant, as in جَنَّة (janna).

Every word from the root j-n-n in the Quran

The Quran builds 8 different words on j-n-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. One verb, جَنَّ (janna), accounts for 1 of the root's 201 occurrences; the rest are nouns, adjectives and participles.

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 8 counts, and the root total of 201, with the corpus's own dictionary entry for j-n-n, and all of them match.

The root j-n-n in the verses of the Quran

Words from j-n-n appear in 196 verses spread over 70 of the Quran's 114 suras. Sura 7 has the most of them, 13 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.

جَنَّة (janna), 147 times

وَجَنَّٰتٍ وَعُيُونٍ
Quran 26:134; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "and gardens"

وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى
Quran 89:30; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "my paradise"

فِى جَنَّٰتٍ وَعُيُونٍ
Quran 26:147; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "gardens"

جِنّ (jinn), 22 times

وَمَا خَلَقْتُ ٱلْجِنَّ وَٱلْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ
Quran 51:56; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "the jinn"

وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن تَقُولَ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا
Quran 72:5; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "and the jinn"

مَجْنُون (majnūn), 11 times

وَمَا صَاحِبُكُم بِمَجْنُونٍ
Quran 81:22; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "mad"

مَآ أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ
Quran 68:2; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "a madman"

Learning the words of j-n-n

جَنَّة (janna), no. 72 with 147, is on our list of the 100 most common Quran words, which counts it the same way. Its verb follows the pattern of form I, and our Arabic verb conjugator conjugates any root in any form, so you can see how جَنَّ changes for person and tense. The root j-n-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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