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ع-و-ن

Ayn-Waw-Nun

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About this root

Ayn-Waw-Nun (ع-و-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: taʿāwana (to cooperate (Form VI)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 12 times in 11 verses, across 9 of the 114 suras. The first is in 1:5. The form تَعَاوَنَ (to cooperate (Form VI)) accounts for 2 of them.

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Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
تَعَاوَنَ
taʿāwana
to cooperate (Form VI)verb, B12×Verbs of Thinking

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ

Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help.

Quran 1:5
قَالُوا۟ ٱدْعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ يُبَيِّن لَّنَا مَا هِىَ ۚ قَالَ إِنَّهُۥ يَقُولُ إِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌ لَّا فَارِضٌ وَلَا بِكْرٌ عَوَانٌۢ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ ۖ فَٱفْعَلُوا۟ مَا تُؤْمَرُونَ

They said: Pray for us unto thy Lord that He make clear to us what (cow) she is. (Moses) answered: Lo! He saith, Verily she is a cow neither with calf nor immature; (she is) between the two conditions; so do that which ye are commanded.

Quran 2:68
وَجَآءُو عَلَىٰ قَمِيصِهِۦ بِدَمٍ كَذِبٍ ۚ قَالَ بَلْ سَوَّلَتْ لَكُمْ أَنفُسُكُمْ أَمْرًا ۖ فَصَبْرٌ جَمِيلٌ ۖ وَٱللَّهُ ٱلْمُسْتَعَانُ عَلَىٰ مَا تَصِفُونَ

And they came with false blood on his shirt. He said: Nay, but your minds have beguiled you into something. (My course is) comely patience. And Allah it is Whose help is to be sought in that (predicament) which ye describe.

Quran 12:18

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

B1verb
تَعَاوَنَ
taʿāwana

to cooperate (Form VI)

Example
تَعاوَنَ الجيرانُ في تَنظيفِ الشّارِع.
taʿāwana l-jīrānu fī tanẓīfi sh-shāriʿ.
The neighbors cooperated in cleaning the street.

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