Arabic root

ت-س-ع

Ta-Sin-Ayn

3 words from this root family

About this root

Ta-Sin-Ayn (ت-س-ع) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: tisʿa (nine), tisʿūna (ninety), at-tāsiʿ (ninth).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 7 times in 6 verses, across 5 of the 114 suras. The first is in 17:101. The form تِسْعَة (nine) accounts for 2 of them.

Themes: Numbers, Basics, Numbers Tens, Numbers Ordinals

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
تِسْعَة tisʿa	nine	numeral, A1	2×	Numbers 0-9
تِسْعُونَ tisʿūna	ninety	numeral, A1		Remaining Tens & Compound Numbers
التَّاسِع at-tāsiʿ	ninth	adjective, A1		Large Numbers & Ordinals

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَىٰ تِسْعَ ءَايَـٰتٍۭ بَيِّنَـٰتٍ ۖ فَسْـَٔلْ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ إِذْ جَآءَهُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُۥ فِرْعَوْنُ إِنِّى لَأَظُنُّكَ يَـٰمُوسَىٰ مَسْحُورًا

And verily We gave unto Moses nine tokens, clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty). Do but ask the Children of Israel how he came unto them, then Pharaoh said unto him: Lo! I deem thee one bewitched, O Moses.

Quran 17:101

وَلَبِثُوا۟ فِى كَهْفِهِمْ ثَلَـٰثَ مِا۟ئَةٍ سِنِينَ وَٱزْدَادُوا۟ تِسْعًا

And (it is said) they tarried in their Cave three hundred years and add nine.

Quran 18:25

وَكَانَ فِى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ تِسْعَةُ رَهْطٍ يُفْسِدُونَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَا يُصْلِحُونَ

And there were in the city nine persons who made mischief in the land and reformed not.

Quran 27:48

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).