12 times in the Quran · 2 word forms · rank 515

The Quran root ط م ع ṭ-m-ʿ

Words built from the root ط م ع ([ṭ-m-ʿ]) appear 12 times in the Quran. The most common is يَطْمَعُ, “hope”, which comes 8 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
يَطْمَعُ	yaṭmaʿu	hope · Do you hope	8
طَمَع	ṭamaʿ	hope	4

Examples from the Quran

أَفَتَطْمَعُونَ أَن يُؤْمِنُوا لَكُمْ وَقَدْ كَانَ فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ كَلَامَ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ يُحَرِّفُونَهُ مِن بَعْدِ مَا عَقَلُوهُ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ ٧٥

أَفَتَطْمَعُونَ afataṭmaʿūna · Do you hope

Do you covet [the hope, O believers], that they would believe for you while a party of them used to hear the words of Allāh and then distort it [i.e., the Torah] after they had understood it while they were knowing? (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:75)

وَمَا لَنَا لَا نُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَمَا جَاءَنَا مِنَ الْحَقِّ وَنَطْمَعُ أَن يُدْخِلَنَا رَبُّنَا مَعَ الْقَوْمِ الصَّالِحِينَ ٨٤

وَنَطْمَعُ wanaṭmaʿu · And we hope

And why should we not believe in Allāh and what has come to us of the truth? And we aspire that our Lord will admit us [to Paradise] with the righteous people." (Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:84)

وَلَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ بَعْدَ إِصْلَاحِهَا وَادْعُوهُ خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا إِنَّ رَحْمَتَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ مِّنَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ ٥٦

وَطَمَعًا waṭamaʿan · and hope

And cause not corruption upon the earth after its reformation. And invoke Him in fear and aspiration. Indeed, the mercy of Allāh is near to the doers of good. (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:56)

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.