Root

م-ك-ن

mkn·m-k-n

18 occurrences16 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مَكَّmakka13
مَكِينmakīn4
أَمْكَنَamkana1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on م-ك-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 IIفَعَّلَ13×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مَكَّmakka13
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَمْكَنَamkana1

Covers 14 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 م-ك-ن more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times م-ك-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 14 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 7 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 127 pages — pages 1127, juzʾ 17.

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 م-ك-ن appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root م-ك-ن (mkn) occurs 18 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 16 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-ك-ن occur?

16 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from م-ك-ن (mkn), out of 18 total occurrences.

What words come from the root م-ك-ن?

م-ك-ن (mkn) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مَكَّ (makka, 13×), مَكِين (makīn, 4×), and أَمْكَنَ (amkana, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.