Arabic root

ع-ي-ن

Ayn-Ya-Nun

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ayn-Ya-Nun (ع-ي-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ʿayn (eye).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 65 times in 63 verses, across 37 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:60. The form عَيْن (eye) accounts for 57 of them.

Themes: Health, Body

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
عَيْن ʿayn	eye	noun, A2	57×	Parts of the Body

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

In the Quran

۞ وَإِذِ ٱسْتَسْقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِۦ فَقُلْنَا ٱضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ ٱلْحَجَرَ ۖ فَٱنفَجَرَتْ مِنْهُ ٱثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ عَيْنًا ۖ قَدْ عَلِمَ كُلُّ أُنَاسٍ مَّشْرَبَهُمْ ۖ كُلُوا۟ وَٱشْرَبُوا۟ مِن رِّزْقِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ

And when Moses asked for water for his people, We said: Smite with thy staff the rock. And there gushed out therefrom twelve springs (so that) each tribe knew their drinking-place. Eat and drink of that which Allah hath provided, and do not act corruptly, making mischief in the earth.

Quran 2:60

وَجَعَلْنَا ٱبْنَ مَرْيَمَ وَأُمَّهُۥٓ ءَايَةً وَءَاوَيْنَـٰهُمَآ إِلَىٰ رَبْوَةٍ ذَاتِ قَرَارٍ وَمَعِينٍ

And We made the son of Mary and his mother a portent, and We gave them refuge on a height, a place of flocks and watersprings.

Quran 23:50

وَعِندَهُمْ قَـٰصِرَٰتُ ٱلطَّرْفِ عِينٌ

And with them are those of modest gaze, with lovely eyes,

Quran 37:48

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).