Nun-Kaf-Ra
1 word from this root family
Nun-Kaf-Ra (ن-ك-ر) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: munkar (evil deed / what is rejected as wrong).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 37 times in 37 verses, across 26 of the 114 suras. The first is in 3:104. The form مُنْكَرٌ (evil deed / what is rejected as wrong) accounts for 18 of them.
Themes: Quranic
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
مُنْكَرٌ munkar | evil deed / what is rejected as wrong | noun, A2 | 18× | Lawful, Forbidden, and Duty |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى ٱلْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ ٱلْمُنكَرِ ۚ وَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَAnd there may spring from you a nation who invite to goodness, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency. Such are they who are successful.
فَلَمَّا رَءَآ أَيْدِيَهُمْ لَا تَصِلُ إِلَيْهِ نَكِرَهُمْ وَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةً ۚ قَالُوا۟ لَا تَخَفْ إِنَّآ أُرْسِلْنَآ إِلَىٰ قَوْمِ لُوطٍAnd when he saw their hands reached not to it, he mistrusted them and conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not! Lo! we are sent unto the folk of Lot.
وَجَآءَ إِخْوَةُ يُوسُفَ فَدَخَلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِ فَعَرَفَهُمْ وَهُمْ لَهُۥ مُنكِرُونَAnd Joseph's brethren came and presented themselves before him, and he knew them but they knew him not.
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).
Passive participle of أَنْكَرَ (to deny/reject). Literally 'what is rejected.' Used as noun meaning evil/wrong.
Paired with maʿrūf as the core ethical binary in the Quran. Failure to forbid munkar led to divine punishment of past nations.