Quranic root
أمن
ʾ · m · n
The root centers on security and freedom from fear, trustworthiness, and believing or affirming something as true.
The two closely related orientations are inward calm and safety on one side, and trust or confirmation on the other. From these develop meanings of being secure, granting or seeking protection, entrusting, faith, trustworthy character, and entrusted property or charge.
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَمِنَ
ʾamina
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 20 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To be, become, or feel secure and free from fear.
Used of a person or community, and with مِنْ for being secure from or free from fear of something. The Quran also uses it in rhetorical questions about assuming oneself safe from impending harm.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:97word 1
“Then did feel secure”
To trust or entrust someone with a person, matter, or charge.
A transitive construction meaning to trust someone, give him charge over something, or confide a responsibility to him; it is distinct from the intransitive sense of feeling safe.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:75word 6
“you entrust him”
آمَنَ
ʾāmana
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 537 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To render secure, protect, or grant security and safe-conduct.
A causative construction: someone is made safe from a threat or granted protection, security, indemnity, or quarter.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 106:4word 5
“and gives them security”
To believe, affirm as true, or have faith in God, revelation, messengers, or a professed truth.
The verb may be used transitively, with بِ, or with لِ; believing may involve inward assent and, in some Quranic contexts, is contrasted with merely acknowledging something verbally. The construction can also express giving credit to someone.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:13word 9
“Should we believe”
ائْتُمِنَ
āʾtumina
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To be entrusted with a person, property, or charge; to be trusted with something.
The Quran occurrence is passive: the subject is the person to whom a trust or responsibility is entrusted.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:283word 16
“is entrusted”
آمِن
ʾāmin
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 17 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Secure, safe, and free from fear.
An active participle used adjectivally or substantivally of a person, community, town, or other setting characterized by security.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:126word 8
“secure”
Quran 16:112word 6
“secure”
إِيمَان
ʾīmān
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 45 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Faith or belief: firm assent to God, His word, and His messengers, with the corresponding confession and conduct.
The Quranic noun can denote a person's faith or belief, the religious commitment associated with it, and the faith recognized as a basis of religious belonging. The lexical discussion also uses it for trustful confirmation.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:143word 40
“your faith”
Quran 49:14word 12
“the faith”
Prayer or an act of worship, in a Quranic expression referring to an earlier prayer.
This specialized interpretation applies to the expression in which a previous form of worship is called īmān; it is not a general replacement for the meaning faith.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:143word 40
“your faith”
The revealed religious law or dispensation accepted as faith.
A contextual extension in which īmān denotes the prophetic religious order or the state of belonging to it.
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أَمَانَة
ʾamānah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 6 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A trust, entrusted property, responsibility, or charge committed to someone's care.
Used for concrete trusts and for a weighty responsibility or obligation entrusted to a person; the plural refers to trusts collectively.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 8:27word 9
“your trusts”
Quran 33:72word 3
“the Trust”
أَمَنَة
ʾamanah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A state or instance of security and relief from fear.
A noun for security experienced or bestowed, including the calm and repose associated with safety.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:154word 7
“security”
Quran 8:11word 4
“a security”
أَمِين
ʾamīn
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 14 occurrences
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Trustworthy, faithful, or entrusted with a charge.
An adjective for a person or agent in whom trust is placed, including a guardian, depositary, or reliable bearer of a message or responsibility.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:193word 4
“[the] Trustworthy”
Secure or safe from fear.
A Quranic adjectival use describing a secure setting or condition; this is distinct from the relational meaning trustworthy.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 44:51word 5
“secure”
أَمْن
ʾamn
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 5 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Security, safety, and freedom from fear; protection or an assured state of safety.
It may describe a condition of security, a protected state, or a place in which one is safe. The Quranic noun contrasts with fear and may carry the practical sense of protection or safe-conduct.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:125word 6
“and (a place of) security”
Quran 6:82word 9
“(is) the security”
مَأْمَن
maʾman
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A place of safety or security.
A locative noun for the place or destination in which a person is safe.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:6word 13
“(to) his place of safety”
مَأْمُون
maʾmūn
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Trusted, or regarded as safe and secure to rely upon.
A passive-participial adjective describing someone or something from which security is felt or in which trust can be placed.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 70:28word 5
“to be felt secure (of)”
مُؤْمِن
muʾmin
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 230 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A believer: one who affirms the truth and has faith.
Used substantivally or adjectivally for believing persons, with masculine and feminine forms and singular and plural inflections represented under this citation form.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 23:1word 3
“(are) the believers”
The one who grants security and protects from fear or wrong.
A Quranic divine epithet, describing the giver of security and the one who fulfills or guarantees protection.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 59:23word 11
“the Giver of Security”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:3يُؤْمِنُونَbelieve
- 2:4يُؤْمِنُونَbelieve
- 2:6يُؤْمِنُونَthey believe
- 2:8ءَامَنَّاWe believed
- 2:8بِمُؤْمِنِينَ(are) believers (at all)
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 20 Classical meanings
أَمُنَ
To be trusted in, trustworthy, trusty, or faithful.
A distinct Form I stative use describing a person who is relied upon or confided in.
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أَمَّنَ
To say آمين after a prayer or supplication.
A Form II ritual use, especially after recitation or prayer.
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آمَنَ
To trust, confide in, or place confidence in someone or something.
A broader or figurative Form IV use with بِ, without the direct causative sense of granting safety.
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آمَنَ
To submit to God, accept the religious law, or manifest humility and acceptance.
A specialized theological and religious use distinguished from merely professing belief.
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اِسْتَأْمَنَ
To ask for protection, or to enter under another's protection.
Form X constructions concern seeking or accepting safe-conduct and protection.
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أَمْن
Religious integrity or a sound natural disposition.
A restricted idiomatic use in expressions praising someone's religion or innate character.
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أَمِنٌ
A person seeking protection or security for himself.
A rare nominal use referring to one who asks or seeks protection.
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أَمَنَةٌ
One who trusts everyone or believes whatever is heard; also one whom people trust and whose harmfulness they do not fear.
This expression preserves two opposing relational orientations: indiscriminate trust and being trusted by others.
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أَمُون
A strong, reliable she-camel not feared to stumble, tire, or become weak.
An archaic animal-related adjective, understood as a passive-like form meaning secure from the stated defects.
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أَمِين
One who trusts or confides in another.
A rare contrasting use of أمين, distinct from the more usual meaning one who is trusted.
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أَمِين
An aid, assistant, or guard relied upon for strength.
An extended lexical use based on confidence in the person's ability.
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أَمِين
Strong or dependable.
A rare, partly figurative extension associated with freedom from fear of weakness.
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أَمَانَة
Trustworthiness, faithfulness, fidelity, or reliable conduct.
This denotes a quality of character rather than the concrete trust or responsibility entrusted to someone.
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أَمَانَة
A person's family or household regarded as a trust placed in his care.
A specialized extension of the sense of something committed to one's responsibility.
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آمِن
The choice or most highly valued part of one's property.
A figurative use of property regarded as secure from being exchanged or sacrificed; it is not the ordinary adjectival sense safe.
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آمِن
Steadfast in forbearance or clemency, with no fear of losing self-restraint.
A figurative adjectival use applied to a person's temper or self-control.
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آمِين
The prayer formula “Amen,” meaning “so be it” or “O Lord, answer.”
An indeclinable expression used immediately after prayer or supplication; it is lexically distinct from the active participle أمين.
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مُؤْمِن
Faithful, trusting, or confiding.
A broader Classical adjectival use of the Form IV active participle beyond the Quranic substantive sense believer.
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مَأْمُونَة
A woman sought after and retained because of valuable qualities.
A rare feminine derivative describing desirability and dependable worth.
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مَأْمُونِيَّة
A particular kind of food.
A lexicalized food name associated historically with al-Maʾmūn rather than a productive semantic use of the root.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
آمَنَ as a Form IV verb and آمِن as the Form I active participle are distinct lexical forms despite their similar appearance; the former primarily concerns believing or granting security, while the latter means secure or safe.
The Form VIII Quran occurrence is passive and is therefore displayed under the normalized passive perfect citation form ائْتُمِنَ.
Some classical entries contain rare, contrasting, figurative, or attributed extensions; these are kept separate from the ordinary Quranic senses rather than generalized across all contexts.
Lane's printed Quran references use historical citation conventions; no such bracketed reference has been converted into a modern verse location unless the QAC packet independently supplied that location.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:Amn:7255:g2:main states senses meaning one who does not write and a cultivator, but the same unit explicitly says these belong to the separate article ام rather than securely to أمن.
lane-unit:Amn:7255:g2:sub2 states a sower or cultivator sense, likewise explicitly associated in the source with another article; it is therefore not assigned as a root meaning.