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111 times in the Quran · 9 word forms · rank 101
The Quran root ن ف ق n-f-q
Words built from the root ن ف ق ([n-f-q]) appear 111 times in the Quran. The most common is أَنفَقَ, “spend”, which comes 68 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| أَنفَقَ | anfaqa | spend · they spend | 68 | |
| مُنافِق | munaafiq | hypocrites · hypocrite men | 27 | |
| مُنافِقَة | munaafiqa | hypocrite women | 5 | |
| نَفَقَة | nafaqa | expenditures · contributions | 3 | |
| نِفاق | nifaaq | hypocrisy | 3 | |
| نافَقُ | naafaqu | hypocrites | 2 | |
| مُنفِق | munfiq | those who spend | 1 | |
| نَفَق | nafaq | tunnel | 1 | |
| إِنفاق | infaaq | spending | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ وَيُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ ٣
يُنفِقُونَ yunfiqūna · they spend
Who believe in the unseen, establish prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them, (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:3)
وَأَنفِقُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ وَأَحْسِنُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُحْسِنِينَ ١٩٥
وَأَنفِقُوا wa-anfiqū · And spend
And spend in the way of Allāh and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]. And do good; indeed, Allāh loves the doers of good. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:195)
وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَعَالَوْا إِلَىٰ مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ وَإِلَى الرَّسُولِ رَأَيْتَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ يَصُدُّونَ عَنكَ صُدُودًا ٦١
الْمُنَافِقِينَ l-munāfiqīna · the hypocrites
And when it is said to them, "Come to what Allāh has revealed and to the Messenger," you see the hypocrites turning away from you in aversion. (Surah An-Nisa, 4:61)
الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتُ بَعْضُهُم مِّن بَعْضٍ يَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمُنكَرِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَقْبِضُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ نَسُوا اللَّهَ فَنَسِيَهُمْ إِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ ٦٧
وَالْمُنَافِقَاتُ wal-munāfiqātu · and the hypocrite women
The hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another. They enjoin what is wrong and forbid what is right and close their hands. They have forgotten Allāh, so He has forgotten them [accordingly]. Indeed, the hypocrites - it is they who are the defiantly disobedient. (Surah At-Tawbah, 9:67)
وَمَا أَنفَقْتُم مِّن نَّفَقَةٍ أَوْ نَذَرْتُم مِّن نَّذْرٍ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُهُ وَمَا لِلظَّالِمِينَ مِنْ أَنصَارٍ ٢٧٠
نَّفَقَةٍ nafaqatin · (your) expenditures
And whatever you spend of expenditures or make of vows - indeed, Allāh knows of it. And for the wrongdoers there are no helpers. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:270)
فَأَعْقَبَهُمْ نِفَاقًا فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يَلْقَوْنَهُ بِمَا أَخْلَفُوا اللَّهَ مَا وَعَدُوهُ وَبِمَا كَانُوا يَكْذِبُونَ ٧٧
نِفَاقًا nifāqan · (with) hypocrisy
So He penalized them with hypocrisy in their hearts until the Day they will meet Him - because they failed Allāh in what they promised Him and because they [habitually] used to lie. (Surah At-Tawbah, 9:77)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah At-Tawbah · 21×
- Surah Al-Baqarah · 20×
- Surah An-Nisa · 9×
- Surah Al-Hadid · 7×
- Surah Al-Ahzab · 7×
- Surah Ali 'Imran · 6×
Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.