Core sense · interpretive
to help, aid (isti'āna, 'awn).
Derived forms
| Form | Translit | Count | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| اسْتَعِينُ | āstaʿīnu | 4 | — |
| تَعاوَنُ | taʿāwanu | 2 | — |
| مُسْتَعان | mustaʿān | 2 | — |
| أَعانَ | aʿāna | 2 | — |
| عَوان | ʿawān | 1 | — |
| ماعُون | māʿūn | 1 | — |
Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-و-ن
The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.
- Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×
often causative — to make it happen · interpretive
- أَعانَaʿāna2
- Form VIتَفَاعَلَ2×
often mutual, between parties · interpretive
- تَعاوَنُtaʿāwanu2
- Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ6×
often seeking or deeming · interpretive
- اسْتَعِينُāstaʿīnu4
- مُسْتَعانmustaʿān2
Covers 10 of this root’s 12 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.
Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with
Nearby roots share verses with ع-و-ن more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →
Word path · where ع-و-ن falls in the muṣḥaf
Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-و-ن occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.
Densest in juzʾ 1 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 241 pages — pages 361–601, juzʾ 18–30.
Occurrences · 12 in mushaf order
نَسْتَعِينُ
وَٱسْتَعِينُوا۟
عَوَانٌۢ
ٱسْتَعِينُوا۟
وَتَعَاوَنُوا۟ · تَعَاوَنُوا۟
ٱسْتَعِينُوا۟
ٱلْمُسْتَعَانُ
فَأَعِينُونِى
ٱلْمُسْتَعَانُ
وَأَعَانَهُۥ
ٱلْمَاعُونَ
Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →