Root

ن-ش-أ

nsh·n-sh-2

28 occurrences25 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَنشَأَanshaʾa20
نَشْأَةnashʾah3
يُنَشَّؤُا۟yunashshaʾuā1
مُنشَآتmunshaʾāt1
إِنشاءinshā1
مُنشِئmunshi1
ناشِئَةnāshiʾah1

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

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 Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ناشِئَةnāshiʾah1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُنَشَّؤُا۟yunashshaʾuā1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ23×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَنشَأَanshaʾa20
    • مُنشَآتmunshaʾāt1
    • إِنشاءinshā1
    • مُنشِئmunshi1

Covers 25 of this root’s 28 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-ش-أ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ن-ش-أ 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 22 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 127 pages — pages 1127, juzʾ 17.

Occurrences · 28 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-ش-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ن-ش-أ (nsh) occurs 28 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 25 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-ش-أ occur?

25 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ن-ش-أ (nsh), out of 28 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ن-ش-أ?

ن-ش-أ (nsh) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَنشَأَ (anshaʾa, 20×), نَشْأَة (nashʾah, 3×), يُنَشَّؤُا۟ (yunashshaʾuā, 1×), مُنشَآت (munshaʾāt, 1×), and إِنشاء (inshā, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.