to wish / to hope
Form V defective verb (تَفَعَّلَ). Past: tamannā, Present: yatamannā.
Mim-Nun-Ya
1 word from this root family
Mim-Nun-Ya (م-ن-ي) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: tamannā (to wish / to hope).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 22 times in 19 verses, across 10 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:78. The form تَمَنَّى (to wish / to hope) accounts for 3 of them.
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
تَمَنَّى tamannā | to wish / to hope | verb, A1 | 3× | Action Verbs - Miscellaneous |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ إِلَّآ أَمَانِىَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَAmong them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess.
قُلْ إِن كَانَتْ لَكُمُ ٱلدَّارُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ خَالِصَةً مِّن دُونِ ٱلنَّاسِ فَتَمَنَّوُا۟ ٱلْمَوْتَ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰدِقِينَSay (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.
وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَا مِن قَبْلِكَ مِن رَّسُولٍ وَلَا نَبِىٍّ إِلَّآ إِذَا تَمَنَّىٰٓ أَلْقَى ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ فِىٓ أُمْنِيَّتِهِۦ فَيَنسَخُ ٱللَّهُ مَا يُلْقِى ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ ثُمَّ يُحْكِمُ ٱللَّهُ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌNever sent We a messenger or a prophet before thee but when He recited (the message) Satan proposed (opposition) in respect of that which he recited thereof. But Allah abolisheth that which Satan proposeth. Then Allah establisheth His revelations. Allah is Knower, Wise;
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).
Form V defective verb (تَفَعَّلَ). Past: tamannā, Present: yatamannā.