Root

ح-ص-ن

ḥṣn·7-s9-n

18 occurrences12 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مُحْصَنَةmuḥṣanah8
أَحْصَنَتْaḥṣanat5
مُحْصِنmuḥṣin2
تَحَصُّنtaḥaṣṣun1
حُصُونḥuṣūn1
مُحَصَّنَةmuḥaṣṣanah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ح-ص-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 IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُحَصَّنَةmuḥaṣṣanah1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ15×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُحْصَنَةmuḥṣanah8
    • أَحْصَنَتْaḥṣanat5
    • مُحْصِنmuḥṣin2
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَحَصُّنtaḥaṣṣun1

Covers 17 of this root’s 18 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-ص-ن more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-ص-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 11 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 190 pages — pages 355544, juzʾ 1828.

Occurrences · 18 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-ص-ن appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-ص-ن (ḥṣn) occurs 18 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 12 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-ص-ن occur?

12 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-ص-ن (ḥṣn), out of 18 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-ص-ن?

ح-ص-ن (ḥṣn) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مُحْصَنَة (muḥṣanah, 8×), أَحْصَنَتْ (aḥṣanat, 5×), مُحْصِن (muḥṣin, 2×), تَحَصُّن (taḥaṣṣun, 1×), and حُصُون (ḥuṣūn, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.