Root

م-د-ن

mdn·m-d-n

27 occurrences27 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَدِينَةmadīnah14—
مَدْيَنmadyan10—
مَدائِنmadāʾin3—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with م-د-ن more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times م-د-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 24 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 20 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 160 pages — pages 1–160, juzʾ 1–8.

Occurrences · 27 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 م-د-ن appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root م-د-ن (mdn) occurs 27 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 27 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 م-د-ن occur?

27 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from م-د-ن (mdn), out of 27 total occurrences.

What words come from the root م-د-ن?

م-د-ن (mdn) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَدِينَة (madīnah, 14×), مَدْيَن (madyan, 10×), and مَدائِن (madāʾin, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.