Root

ن-ع-م

nʿm·n-3-m

140 occurrences128 verses9 forms

Core sense · interpretive

to favour, bless (ni'ma, an'ama).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
نِعْمَةniʿmah50—
نَعَمnaʿam33—
نِعْمَniʿma18—
أَنْعَمَanʿama17—
نَعِيمnaʿīm17—
نَعْمَةnaʿmah2—
نَعْماءnaʿmā1—
ناعِمَةnāʿimah1—
نَعَّمَnaʿʿama1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ن-ع-م

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 Iفَعَلَ19×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • نِعْمَniʿma18
    • ناعِمَةnāʿimah1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • نَعَّمَnaʿʿama1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ17×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَنْعَمَanʿama17

Covers 37 of this root’s 140 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 ن-ع-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ع-م 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 108 of 604 pages (18%)

Densest in juzʾ 14 (13 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 27 pages — pages 147–173, juzʾ 8–9.

Occurrences · 140 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 ن-ع-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ع-م (nʿm) occurs 140 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 128 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 ن-ع-م occur?

128 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ع-م (nʿm), out of 140 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ع-م?

ن-ع-م (nʿm) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently نِعْمَة (niʿmah, 50×), نَعَم (naʿam, 33×), نِعْمَ (niʿma, 18×), أَنْعَمَ (anʿama, 17×), and نَعِيم (naʿīm, 17×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root ن-ع-م mean?

The core sense of ن-ع-م (nʿm) is to favour, bless (ni'ma, an'ama). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.