Root

ث-ن-ي

thny·th-n-y

29 occurrences24 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اثْنَيْنāthnayn13
اثْنَتَيْنāthnatayn7
مَثْنَىmathnā3
ثانِيthānī2
مَثانِيmathānī2
يَثْنُyathnu1
يَسْتَثْنُyastathnu1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ث-ن-ي

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 Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • يَثْنُyathnu1
  2. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَثْنُyastathnu1

Covers 2 of this root’s 29 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 ث-ن-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ث-ن-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ث-ن-ي 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 23 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 8 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 96 pages — pages 469564, juzʾ 2429.

Occurrences · 29 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 ث-ن-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ث-ن-ي (thny) occurs 29 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 24 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 ث-ن-ي occur?

24 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ث-ن-ي (thny), out of 29 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ث-ن-ي?

ث-ن-ي (thny) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اثْنَيْن (āthnayn, 13×), اثْنَتَيْن (āthnatayn, 7×), مَثْنَى (mathnā, 3×), ثانِي (thānī, 2×), and مَثانِي (mathānī, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.