Root

ل-ع-ن

lʿn·l-3-n

41 occurrences36 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
لَعَنَlaʿana23
لَعْنَةlaʿnah14
لاعِنlāʿin1
مَلْعُونَةmalʿūnah1
مَلْعُونmalʿūn1
لَعْنlaʿn1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ل-ع-ن falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ل-ع-ن 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 31 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 93 pages — pages 512604, juzʾ 2630.

Occurrences · 41 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 ل-ع-ن appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ل-ع-ن (lʿn) occurs 41 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 36 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 ل-ع-ن occur?

36 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ل-ع-ن (lʿn), out of 41 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ل-ع-ن?

ل-ع-ن (lʿn) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently لَعَنَ (laʿana, 23×), لَعْنَة (laʿnah, 14×), لاعِن (lāʿin, 1×), مَلْعُونَة (malʿūnah, 1×), and مَلْعُون (malʿūn, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.