Root

ح-س-ن

ḥsn·7-s-n

194 occurrences177 verses11 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مُحْسِنmuḥsin38—
أَحْسَنaḥsan36—
حَسَنَةḥasanah31—
أَحْسَنَaḥsana21—
حَسَنḥasan21—
حُسْنَىḥusnā17—
حُسْنḥusn13—
إِحْسانiḥsān12—
حَسُنَḥasuna3—
حُسْنَيَيْنḥusnayayn1—
مُحْسِنَةmuḥsinah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ح-س-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.

  1. Form Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • حَسُنَḥasuna3
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ72×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُحْسِنmuḥsin38
    • أَحْسَنَaḥsana21
    • إِحْسانiḥsān12
    • مُحْسِنَةmuḥsinah1

Covers 75 of this root’s 194 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 ح-س-ن more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ح-س-ن falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-س-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.

lessmoreon 149 of 604 pages (25%)

Densest in juzʾ 23 (14 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 16 pages — pages 254–269, juzʾ 13–14.

Occurrences · 194 in mushaf order

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 →

Questions

How many times does the root ح-س-ن appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-س-ن (ḥsn) occurs 194 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 177 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does ح-س-ن occur?

177 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-س-ن (ḥsn), out of 194 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-س-ن?

ح-س-ن (ḥsn) yields 11 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مُحْسِن (muḥsin, 38×), أَحْسَن (aḥsan, 36×), حَسَنَة (ḥasanah, 31×), أَحْسَنَ (aḥsana, 21×), and حَسَن (ḥasan, 21×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.