Root

د-ي-ن

dyn·d-y-n

101 occurrences87 verses5 forms

Core sense · interpretive

recompense, judgment, religion (dīn).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
دِينdīn92—
دَيْنdayn5—
مَدِينmadīn2—
تَدايَنtadāyan1—
يَدِينُyadīnu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on د-ي-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

    • مَدِينmadīn2
    • يَدِينُyadīnu1
  2. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَدايَنtadāyan1

Covers 4 of this root’s 101 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-ي-ن more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times د-ي-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 74 of 604 pages (12%)

Densest in juzʾ 30 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 68 pages — pages 273–340, juzʾ 14–17.

Occurrences · 101 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-ي-ن appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root د-ي-ن (dyn) occurs 101 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 87 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-ي-ن occur?

87 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from د-ي-ن (dyn), out of 101 total occurrences.

What words come from the root د-ي-ن?

د-ي-ن (dyn) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently دِين (dīn, 92×), دَيْن (dayn, 5×), مَدِين (madīn, 2×), تَدايَن (tadāyan, 1×), and يَدِينُ (yadīnu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root د-ي-ن mean?

The core sense of د-ي-ن (dyn) is recompense, judgment, religion (dīn). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.