Arabic root

م-ه-ن

Mim-Heh-Nun

1 word from this root family

About this root

Mim-Heh-Nun (م-ه-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: mihna (profession / occupation).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 32:8.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
مِهْنة mihna	profession / occupation	noun, A2	The Office

In the Quran

ثُمَّ جَعَلَ نَسْلَهُۥ مِن سُلَـٰلَةٍ مِّن مَّآءٍ مَّهِينٍ

Then He made his seed from a draught of despised fluid;

Quran 32:8

أَمْ أَنَا۠ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ هَـٰذَا ٱلَّذِى هُوَ مَهِينٌ وَلَا يَكَادُ يُبِينُ

I am surely better than this fellow, who is despicable and can hardly make (his meaning) plain!

Quran 43:52

وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ

Neither obey thou each feeble oath-monger,

Quran 68:10

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).