Root

أ-ن-س

ns·2-n-s

338 occurrences317 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ناسnās241
إِنسانinsān71
إِنسins18
آنَسَānasa5
إِنسِيّinsiyy1
تَسْتَأْنِسُtastaʾnisu1
مُسْتَأْنِسmustaʾnis1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on أ-ن-س

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form IVأَفْعَلَ5×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • آنَسَānasa5
  2. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ2×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • تَسْتَأْنِسُtastaʾnisu1
    • مُسْتَأْنِسmustaʾnis1

Covers 7 of this root’s 338 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with أ-ن-س more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-ن-س falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-ن-س occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 229 of 604 pages (38%)

Densest in juzʾ 30 (26 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 15 pages — pages 193207, juzʾ 1011.

Occurrences · 338 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root أ-ن-س appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-ن-س (ns) occurs 338 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 317 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does أ-ن-س occur?

317 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-ن-س (ns), out of 338 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-ن-س?

أ-ن-س (ns) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ناس (nās, 241×), إِنسان (insān, 71×), إِنس (ins, 18×), آنَسَ (ānasa, 5×), and إِنسِيّ (insiyy, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.