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Arabic root

ح-ن-ن

Ha-Nun-Nun

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About this root

Ha-Nun-Nun (ح-ن-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ḥanīn (nostalgia / longing).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 19:13.

Themes: Literature Arts

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
حَنِين
ḥanīn
nostalgia / longingnoun, B2Literary Criticism

In the Quran

وَحَنَانًا مِّن لَّدُنَّا وَزَكَوٰةً ۖ وَكَانَ تَقِيًّا

And compassion from Our presence, and purity; and he was devout,

Quran 19:13

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

B2noun
حَنِين
ḥanīn

nostalgia / longing

Example
يَمتَلِئُ الشِّعرُ العَرَبِيُّ بِالحَنينِ إلى الوَطَن.
yamtaliʾu sh-shiʿru l-ʿarabiyyu bi-l-ḥanīni ilā l-waṭan.
Arabic poetry is filled with nostalgia for the homeland.

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