Arabic root

ظ-ن-ن

Zah-Nun-Nun

1 word from this root family

About this root

Zah-Nun-Nun (ظ-ن-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ẓanna (to think / to suppose).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 69 times in 57 verses, across 32 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:46. The form ظَنَّ (to think / to suppose) accounts for 47 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Cognition

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
ظَنَّ ẓanna	to think / to suppose	verb, A1	47×	Action Verbs - Daily Activities

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

In the Quran

ٱلَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُم مُّلَـٰقُوا۟ رَبِّهِمْ وَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ رَٰجِعُونَ

Who know that they will have to meet their Lord, and that unto Him they are returning.

Quran 2:46

وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ إِلَّآ أَمَانِىَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ

Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess.

Quran 2:78

وَإِن تُطِعْ أَكْثَرَ مَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ يُضِلُّوكَ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ

If thou obeyedst most of those on earth they would mislead thee far from Allah's way. They follow naught but an opinion, and they do but guess.

Quran 6:116

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).