Root

ك-ن-ن

knn·k-n-n

12 occurrences12 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَكِنَّةakinnah4
مَكْنُونmaknūn4
أَكْنَنaknan3
أَكْنانaknān1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ك-ن-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 Iفَعَلَ4×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • مَكْنُونmaknūn4
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ3×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَكْنَنaknan3

Covers 7 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 ك-ن-ن more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ك-ن-ن falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ك-ن-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 12 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 145 pages — pages 131275, juzʾ 714.

Occurrences · 12 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 ك-ن-ن appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ك-ن-ن (knn) occurs 12 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 ك-ن-ن occur?

12 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ك-ن-ن (knn), out of 12 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ك-ن-ن?

ك-ن-ن (knn) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَكِنَّة (akinnah, 4×), مَكْنُون (maknūn, 4×), أَكْنَن (aknan, 3×), and أَكْنان (aknān, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.