Root

ن-ف-ق

nfq·n-f-q

111 occurrences86 verses9 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَنفَقَanfaqa68—
مُنافِقmunāfiq27—
مُنافِقَةmunāfiqah5—
نَفَقَةnafaqah3—
نِفاقnifāq3—
نافَقُnāfaqu2—
مُنفِقmunfiq1—
نَفَقnafaq1—
إِنفاقinfāq1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ن-ف-ق

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 IIIفَاعَلَ37×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • مُنافِقmunāfiq27
    • مُنافِقَةmunāfiqah5
    • نِفاقnifāq3
    • نافَقُnāfaqu2
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ70×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَنفَقَanfaqa68
    • مُنفِقmunfiq1
    • إِنفاقinfāq1

Covers 107 of this root’s 111 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 ن-ف-ق more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ن-ف-ق falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ف-ق 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 65 of 604 pages (11%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (16 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 45 pages — pages 132–176, juzʾ 7–9.

Occurrences · 111 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 ن-ف-ق appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ف-ق (nfq) occurs 111 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 86 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 ن-ف-ق occur?

86 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ف-ق (nfq), out of 111 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ف-ق?

ن-ف-ق (nfq) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَنفَقَ (anfaqa, 68×), مُنافِق (munāfiq, 27×), مُنافِقَة (munāfiqah, 5×), نَفَقَة (nafaqah, 3×), and نِفاق (nifāq, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.