12 times in the Quran · 3 word forms · rank 541

The Quran root ن ط ق n-ṭ-q

Words built from the root ن ط ق ([n-ṭ-q]) appear 12 times in the Quran. The most common is يَنطِقُ, “speak”, which comes 9 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
يَنطِقُ	yanṭiqu	speak · speaks	9
أَنطَقَ	anṭaqa	Allah made us speak · makes speak	2
مَنطِق	manṭiq	language	1

Examples from the Quran

قَالَ بَلْ فَعَلَهُ كَبِيرُهُمْ هَٰذَا فَاسْأَلُوهُمْ إِن كَانُوا يَنطِقُونَ ٦٣

يَنطِقُونَ yanṭiqūna · speak

He said, "Rather, this - the largest of them - did it, so ask them, if they should [be able to] speak." (Surah Al-Anbya, 21:63)

ثُمَّ نُكِسُوا عَلَىٰ رُءُوسِهِمْ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَا هَٰؤُلَاءِ يَنطِقُونَ ٦٥

يَنطِقُونَ yanṭiqūna · (can) speak

Then they reversed themselves, [saying], "You have already known that these do not speak!" (Surah Al-Anbya, 21:65)

وَقَالُوا لِجُلُودِهِمْ لِمَ شَهِدتُّمْ عَلَيْنَا قَالُوا أَنطَقَنَا اللَّهُ الَّذِي أَنطَقَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ وَهُوَ خَلَقَكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ ٢١

أَنطَقَنَا anṭaqanā · Allah made us speak

And they will say to their skins, "Why have you testified against us?" They will say, "We were made to speak by Allāh, who has made everything speak; and He created you the first time, and to Him you are returned. (Surah Fussilat, 41:21)

وَوَرِثَ سُلَيْمَانُ دَاوُودَ وَقَالَ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ عُلِّمْنَا مَنطِقَ الطَّيْرِ وَأُوتِينَا مِن كُلِّ شَيْءٍ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَهُوَ الْفَضْلُ الْمُبِينُ ١٦

مَنطِقَ manṭiqa · (the) language

And Solomon inherited David. He said, "O people, we have been taught the language of birds, and we have been given from all things. Indeed, this is evident bounty." (Surah An-Naml, 27:16)

Surahs where it comes most

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.