Root

ن-ه-ي

nhy·n-h-y

56 occurrences54 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
نَهَىnahā32
انتَهَىāntahā16
مُنتَهَىmuntahā3
نُهَىnuhā2
يَتَناهَyatanāha1
مُنتَهيmuntahy1
ناهيnāhy1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ن-ه-ي

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 Iفَعَلَ33×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • نَهَىnahā32
    • ناهيnāhy1
  2. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • يَتَناهَyatanāha1
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ20×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • انتَهَىāntahā16
    • مُنتَهَىmuntahā3
    • مُنتَهيmuntahy1

Covers 54 of this root’s 56 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-ه-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ن-ه-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ه-ي 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 46 of 604 pages (8%)

Densest in juzʾ 9 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 51 pages — pages 475525, juzʾ 2427.

Occurrences · 56 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-ه-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ه-ي (nhy) occurs 56 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 54 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-ه-ي occur?

54 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ه-ي (nhy), out of 56 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ه-ي?

ن-ه-ي (nhy) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently نَهَى (nahā, 32×), انتَهَى (āntahā, 16×), مُنتَهَى (muntahā, 3×), نُهَى (nuhā, 2×), and يَتَناهَ (yatanāha, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.