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د-و-ن

Dal-Waw-Nun

2 words from this root family

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Dal-Waw-Nun (د-و-ن) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: dūna (without / besides / other than), dīwān (poetry collection / anthology).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 144 times in 142 verses, across 46 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:23. The form دُونَ (without / besides / other than) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Quranic, Literature Arts

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
دُونَ
dūna
without / besides / other thanparticle, A1144×The Most Frequent Words (Part 3)
دِيوَان
dīwān
poetry collection / anthologynoun, B2Literary Criticism

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

In the Quran

وَإِن كُنتُمْ فِى رَيْبٍ مِّمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَىٰ عَبْدِنَا فَأْتُوا۟ بِسُورَةٍ مِّن مِّثْلِهِۦ وَٱدْعُوا۟ شُهَدَآءَكُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰدِقِينَ

And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.

Quran 2:23
قُلْ إِن كَانَتْ لَكُمُ ٱلدَّارُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ خَالِصَةً مِّن دُونِ ٱلنَّاسِ فَتَمَنَّوُا۟ ٱلْمَوْتَ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰدِقِينَ

Say (unto them): If the abode of the Hereafter in the providence of Allah is indeed for you alone and not for others of mankind (as ye pretend), then long for death (for ye must long for death) if ye are truthful.

Quran 2:94
أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَهُۥ مُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۗ وَمَا لَكُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مِن وَلِىٍّ وَلَا نَصِيرٍ

Knowest thou not that it is Allah unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth; and ye have not, beside Allah, any guardian or helper?

Quran 2:107

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

A1particle
دُونَ
dūna

without / besides / other than

Example
وَلَا تَدْعُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ مَا لَا يَنْفَعُكَ وَلَا يَضُرُّكَ
wa-lā tadʿu min dūni Allāhi mā lā yanfaʿuka wa-lā yaḍurruk
And do not invoke besides Allah that which neither benefits you nor harms you (10:106)
Grammar

Semi-preposition (ظرف). Used frequently in the construction مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ (besides Allah / other than Allah). Takes genitive case.

Culture

The phrase 'min dūni Allāh' appears frequently in the Quran, warning against worshipping or invoking anything besides God.

B2noun
دِيوَان
dīwān

poetry collection / anthology

Example
صَدَرَ ديوانُهُ الشِّعرِيُّ الجَديد.
ṣadara dīwānuhu sh-shiʿriyyu l-jadīd.
His new poetry anthology was published.

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