Root

ن-ق-ص

nqṣ·n-q-s9

10 occurrences10 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
يُنقَصُyunqaṣu7—
نَقْصnaqṣ2—
مَنقُوصmanqūṣ1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ق-ص 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 10 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 140 pages — pages 25–164, juzʾ 2–9.

Occurrences · 10 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-ق-ص appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ق-ص (nqṣ) occurs 10 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 10 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-ق-ص occur?

10 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ق-ص (nqṣ), out of 10 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ق-ص?

ن-ق-ص (nqṣ) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently يُنقَصُ (yunqaṣu, 7×), نَقْص (naqṣ, 2×), and مَنقُوص (manqūṣ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.