Root

ص-ن-ع

ṣnʿ·s9-n-3

20 occurrences19 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
صَنَعُṣanaʿu15
صُنْعṣunʿ2
اصْطَنَعْāṣṭanaʿ1
صَنْعَةṣanʿah1
مَصانِعmaṣāniʿ1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-ن-ع

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 Iفَعَلَ15×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • صَنَعُṣanaʿu15
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اصْطَنَعْāṣṭanaʿ1

Covers 16 of this root’s 20 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 ص-ن-ع more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-ن-ع 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 18 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 169 pages — pages 436604, juzʾ 2230.

Occurrences · 20 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 ص-ن-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-ن-ع (ṣnʿ) occurs 20 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 ص-ن-ع occur?

19 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-ن-ع (ṣnʿ), out of 20 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-ن-ع?

ص-ن-ع (ṣnʿ) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently صَنَعُ (ṣanaʿu, 15×), صُنْع (ṣunʿ, 2×), اصْطَنَعْ (āṣṭanaʿ, 1×), صَنْعَة (ṣanʿah, 1×), and مَصانِع (maṣāniʿ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.