Root

ق-ر-ن

qrn·q-r-n

36 occurrences34 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قَرْنqarn23—
قَرِينqarīn8—
مُقَرَّنmuqarran3—
مُقْرِنmuqrin1—
مُقْتَرِنmuqtarin1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-ر-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 IIفَعَّلَ3×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُقَرَّنmuqarran3
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُقْرِنmuqrin1
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • مُقْتَرِنmuqtarin1

Covers 5 of this root’s 36 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 ق-ر-ن more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-ر-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 30 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 84 pages — pages 1–84, juzʾ 1–5.

Occurrences · 36 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 ق-ر-ن appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-ر-ن (qrn) occurs 36 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 34 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 ق-ر-ن occur?

34 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-ر-ن (qrn), out of 36 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-ر-ن?

ق-ر-ن (qrn) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قَرْن (qarn, 23×), قَرِين (qarīn, 8×), مُقَرَّن (muqarran, 3×), مُقْرِن (muqrin, 1×), and مُقْتَرِن (muqtarin, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.