Root

ن-ك-ح

nkḥ·n-k-7

23 occurrences19 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
نَكَحَnakaḥa14
نِكاحnikāḥ5
تُنكِحُtunkiḥu3
يَسْتَنكِحَyastankiḥa1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ن-ك-ح

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 Iفَعَلَ14×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • نَكَحَnakaḥa14
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ3×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • تُنكِحُtunkiḥu3
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَنكِحَyastankiḥa1

Covers 18 of this root’s 23 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-ك-ح more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ك-ح 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 15 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 251 pages — pages 99349, juzʾ 518.

Occurrences · 23 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-ك-ح appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ك-ح (nkḥ) occurs 23 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 19 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-ك-ح occur?

19 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ك-ح (nkḥ), out of 23 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ك-ح?

ن-ك-ح (nkḥ) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently نَكَحَ (nakaḥa, 14×), نِكاح (nikāḥ, 5×), تُنكِحُ (tunkiḥu, 3×), and يَسْتَنكِحَ (yastankiḥa, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.