Arabic root

ي-م-ن

Ya-Mim-Nun

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ya-Mim-Nun (ي-م-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: yamīn (right (direction)).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 71 times in 63 verses, across 34 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:224.

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	Taught in
يَمين yamīn	right (direction)	noun, A2	Train & Bus Travel

In the Quran

وَلَا تَجْعَلُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ عُرْضَةً لِّأَيْمَـٰنِكُمْ أَن تَبَرُّوا۟ وَتَتَّقُوا۟ وَتُصْلِحُوا۟ بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ

And make not Allah, by your oaths, a hindrance to your being righteous and observing your duty unto Him and making peace among mankind. Allah is Hearer, Knower.

Quran 2:224

وَنَـٰدَيْنَـٰهُ مِن جَانِبِ ٱلطُّورِ ٱلْأَيْمَنِ وَقَرَّبْنَـٰهُ نَجِيًّا

We called him from the right slope of the Mount, and brought him nigh in communion.

Quran 19:52

فَأَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ مَآ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ

(First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand?

Quran 56:8

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).