Quranic root
طين
ṭ · y · n
The root centers on طِين, clay formed from earth mixed with water, and related uses of coating, sealing, and material constitution.
The lexical development extends from clay as a material to coating or sealing with clay, and figuratively to imprinting or forming a person's natural disposition. Related derivatives describe clayiness, clay-working, and objects or persons covered with clay.
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- Mufradāt · row 925
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
طِين
ṭīn
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 12 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.
Clay: earth mixed with water, including clay or mud after much of its water has departed.
A concrete noun for the clay material; the supplied Quranic occurrences include creation and forming contexts and vary in case and definiteness.
- Lane · entry 12156
- Mufradāt · row 925
Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 12 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 16 Classical meanings
طَانَ
To plaster, coat, or cover something with clay or mud.
A transitive use; examples include coating roofs, houses or chambers, and walls.
- Lane · entry 12151
طَانَ، طَيَّنَ
To seal a writing or document with clay.
A transitive construction in which the writing is the object sealed with clay.
- Lane · entry 12151
طَانَ
To create or form someone with an innate disposition toward good.
A figurative construction concerning a person's natural or inborn disposition.
- Lane · entry 12151
طَانَ
Of a person, to make his work or deed good; to perform or execute it well.
Said of a person in relation to his work or deed.
- Lane · entry 12151
تَطَيَّنَ
To become defiled or besmeared with clay, earth, or mud.
A reflexive or intransitive Form V use.
- Lane · entry 12154
طَانٌ، طَانَةٌ
Muddy; containing much clay or mud.
Used adjectivally of a day, place, or land.
- Lane · entry 12155
طِين
A piece or portion of clay used to seal a writing or document.
A more particular use of the noun for the portion of clay applied in sealing.
- Lane · entry 12156
طِين
A craving for clay, identified as a kind of malacia.
Occurs in the expression شَهْوَةُ الطِّينِ, referring to an abnormal appetite for clay.
- Lane · entry 12156
ابْنُ الطِّينِ
Adam, literally “son of clay.”
An idiomatic designation rather than a separate physical-material sense.
- Lane · entry 12156
طِينَة
The material substance regarded as what a formed thing consists of.
An abstract material use of طِينَة for the substance underlying a formed object.
- Lane · entry 12157
طِينَة
A natural or native constitution or disposition.
A figurative use for innate character or temperament.
- Lane · entry 12157
طِينِيّ
Of or relating to clay; clayey or earthy.
An adjectival relation to طِين.
- Lane · entry 12158
طِينِيّ
Of or relating to natural or native constitution; natural or native.
A figurative adjectival relation to طِينَة in the sense of disposition.
- Lane · entry 12158
طِيَانَة
The art or craft of working with clay, especially plastering with clay or mud.
A craft noun derived from the clay-working verb.
- Lane · entry 12159
طَيَّان
A worker in clay, especially a plasterer who works with clay or mud.
An occupational noun.
- Lane · entry 12160
مَطِين
Plastered or coated with clay or mud.
Describes a roof or flat house-top and similar clay-coated structures.
- Lane · entry 12161
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied Quranic form group contains the noun طِين only; Lane's derived verbs, adjectives, idioms, and occupational terms are therefore presented as broader Classical Arabic meanings rather than as additional Quranic form groups.