Quranic root
طمن
ṭ · m · n
The root centers on settling after disturbance into stillness, calm, and ease.
The evidence connects making or becoming low and still with inner tranquility, reliance that brings reassurance, and settled residence; these related branches remain distinct in particular derived forms.
- Maqāyīs · row 3064
- Mufradāt · row 914
- Lane · entry 11769
- Lane · entry 11771
- 2
- Quran-attested forms
- 5
- Quran senses
- 13
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
اِطْمَأَنَّ
āiṭmaʾanna
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form XII
- Form
- XII
- Quran occurrences
- 9 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 become still, tranquil, reassured, or at ease after disturbance; to find inner peace.
Used especially of the heart, soul, or person becoming free from disquiet. Contextual renderings include becoming secure, satisfied, or at rest.
- Lane · entry 11771
- Mufradāt · row 914
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:260word 15
“to satisfy”
Quran 13:28word 3
“and find satisfaction”
Quran 4:103word 11
“you are secure”
To become settled in mind through trust or reliance on something, and so to become content with it.
The construction with إِلَى or بِـ expresses the thing relied upon or accepted as a source of mental ease; this includes becoming content with a worldly life or other object.
- Lane · entry 11771
- Mufradāt · row 914
Selected Quran examples
Quran 10:7word 9
“and feel satisfied”
Quran 22:11word 11
“he is content”
مُطْمَئِنّ
muṭmaʾinn
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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.
Tranquil, at rest, calm, or secure in mind; inwardly reassured or content.
An active participle describing a person, heart, or soul. It may be rendered according to context as content, satisfied, secure, or peacefully settled.
- Lane · entry 11777
- Mufradāt · row 914
Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:106word 11
“(is) content”
Quran 17:95word 8
“securely”
Quran 16:112word 7
“and content”
Quran 89:27word 3
“who is satisfied”
Of the soul, tranquil through belief and submissive or humble to its Lord.
This specialized characterization belongs to the Quranic expression النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ; the associated description is a soul not given to commanding evil, rather than a general restriction on every occurrence of the participle.
- Lane · entry 11777
- Mufradāt · row 914
Selected Quran examples
Quran 89:27word 3
“who is satisfied”
Trusting or relying on something so as to be at rest in mind.
The construction with بِـ or إِلَى identifies what provides the subject with reassurance or settled confidence.
- Lane · entry 11777
- Mufradāt · row 914
Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:106word 11
“(is) content”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:260لِّيَطْمَئِنَّto satisfy
- 3:126وَلِتَطْمَئِنَّand to reassure
- 4:103ٱطْمَأْنَنتُمْyou are secure
- 5:113وَتَطْمَئِنَّand satisfy
- 8:10وَلِتَطْمَئِنَّand so that might be at rest
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 14 Classical meanings
طَأْمَنَ / طَامَنَ
To bend or lower the back, and similarly to lower another thing.
A physical lowering construction; the hamzated and unhamzated forms are reported together in this usage.
- Lane · entry 11769
طَأْمَنَ / طَمْأَنَ
To cause a thing to become still, restful, quiet, or calm.
Transitive causative use, distinct from the intransitive state of becoming tranquil.
- Lane · entry 11769
طَأْمَنَ / طَمْأَنَ
To be at rest from an affair or event.
Used with مِنْ to express relief or cessation of disturbance from an affair.
- Lane · entry 11769
تَطَأْمَنَ
To stoop, bend oneself down, or lower oneself.
Physical reflexive or intransitive use.
- Lane · entry 11770
تَطَأْمَنَ
To become lowly, humble, or submissive.
A figurative use explicitly marked as such; it is not imposed on the ordinary physical sense.
- Lane · entry 11770
اِطْمَأَنَّ
Of land or ground, to become low or depressed.
Physical description of the surface or level of the ground.
- Lane · entry 11771
اِطْمَأَنَّ
To remain, stay, or settle in a place and take it as a home.
The construction with بِـ identifies the place chosen as a settled abode.
- Lane · entry 11771
اِطْمَأَنَّ
To desist from what one has been doing.
Used with عَمَّا to mark the action or practice from which one desists; this is a specialized figurative use.
- Lane · entry 11771
طُمَأْنِينَةٌ
A depression or low place in the ground.
A concrete nominal use referring to a low area or hollow.
- Lane · entry 11774
طُمَأْنِينَةٌ
Stillness, rest, ease, quietness, calmness, tranquility, or freedom from disquietude.
Nominal designation of a state of calm, distinct from the physical sense of a depression in the ground.
- Lane · entry 11774
مُطْمَأَنٌّ
A place of depression or lowness in the land or ground.
A concrete noun for a low or depressed place; it is distinct in form from مُطْمَئِنّ.
- Lane · entry 11776
مُطْمَأَنٌّ إِلَيْهِ
A thing to which one trusts or upon which one relies so as to become at rest in mind.
The prepositional construction identifies the trusted or relied-upon object.
- Lane · entry 11776
مُطْمَئِنٌّ
A low or depressed place.
A concrete spatial use of this headword, separate from its Quran-attested active-participle sense of inward tranquility.
- Lane · entry 11777
مُطْمَئِنٌّ
One who takes a place in the earth or a country as a home or settled abode.
A residence-related use describing settled habitation rather than mental calm.
- Lane · entry 11777
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic renderings “satisfied,” “secure,” “reassured,” and “at rest” are contextual realizations of the tranquility and settled-confidence branches, not automatically separate senses.
The humility, submission, and moral characterization attached to النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ are specific to that Quranic expression and should not be generalized to every occurrence of مُطْمَئِنّ.