Arabic root

ب-ن-ن

Ba-Nun-Nun

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ba-Nun-Nun (ب-ن-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: bunnī (brown).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 2 times in 2 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 8:12.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
بُنِّيّ bunnī	brown	adjective, A1	Adjectives - Appearance & Beauty

In the Quran

إِذْ يُوحِى رَبُّكَ إِلَى ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ أَنِّى مَعَكُمْ فَثَبِّتُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ۚ سَأُلْقِى فِى قُلُوبِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ ٱلرُّعْبَ فَٱضْرِبُوا۟ فَوْقَ ٱلْأَعْنَاقِ وَٱضْرِبُوا۟ مِنْهُمْ كُلَّ بَنَانٍ

When thy Lord inspired the angels, (saying): I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger.

Quran 8:12

بَلَىٰ قَـٰدِرِينَ عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّسَوِّىَ بَنَانَهُۥ

Yea, verily. We are Able to restore his very fingers!

Quran 75:4

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).