Arabic root

ن-ح-ت

Nun-Ha-Ta

2 words from this root family

About this root

Nun-Ha-Ta (ن-ح-ت) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: naḥt (sculpture / sculpting), manḥūta (sculpture (artwork)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 4 of the 114 suras. The first is in 7:74.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
نَحْت naḥt	sculpture / sculpting	noun, A2	Cooking & Food Hobbies
مَنْحُوتَة manḥūta	sculpture (artwork)	noun, B2	Music & Performance

In the Quran

وَٱذْكُرُوٓا۟ إِذْ جَعَلَكُمْ خُلَفَآءَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ عَادٍ وَبَوَّأَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ تَتَّخِذُونَ مِن سُهُولِهَا قُصُورًا وَتَنْحِتُونَ ٱلْجِبَالَ بُيُوتًا ۖ فَٱذْكُرُوٓا۟ ءَالَآءَ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ

And remember how He made you viceroys after A'ad and gave you station in the earth. Ye choose castles in the plains and hew the mountains into dwellings. So remember (all) the bounties of Allah and do not evil, making mischief in the earth.

Quran 7:74

وَكَانُوا۟ يَنْحِتُونَ مِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا ءَامِنِينَ

And they used to hew out dwellings from the hills, (wherein they dwelt) secure.

Quran 15:82

وَتَنْحِتُونَ مِنَ ٱلْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا فَـٰرِهِينَ

Though ye hew out dwellings in the mountain, being skilful?

Quran 26:149

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).