Root

د-ن-و

dnw·d-n-w

133 occurrences128 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
دُنْياdunyā115
أَدْنَىadnā12
دانِيَةdānīah3
دَناdanā2
دانdān1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on د-ن-و

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 Iفَعَلَ5×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • دانِيَةdānīah3
    • دَناdanā1
    • دانdān1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • دَناdanā1

Covers 6 of this root’s 133 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 د-ن-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where د-ن-و falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times د-ن-و 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 112 of 604 pages (19%)

Densest in juzʾ 10 (8 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 35 pages — pages 355389, juzʾ 1820.

Occurrences · 133 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 د-ن-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root د-ن-و (dnw) occurs 133 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 128 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 د-ن-و occur?

128 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from د-ن-و (dnw), out of 133 total occurrences.

What words come from the root د-ن-و?

د-ن-و (dnw) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently دُنْيا (dunyā, 115×), أَدْنَى (adnā, 12×), دانِيَة (dānīah, 3×), دَنا (danā, 2×), and دان (dān, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.