Quranic root
معن
m · ʿ · n
An orientation toward ease or facility in flowing, running, and movement.
The evidence develops this orientation through flowing water and water-rich places, a horse going far in its run, going far or deeply into a pursuit or matter, and ease in handling a need. Some related forms describe land or pasture supplied with running water.
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Forms in the Quran
This root occurs in the Quran, but none of its occurrences are assigned to a reader-facing Quranic form in the dictionary. Its occurrences remain fully browsable below.
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 107:7ٱلْمَاعُونَ[the] small kindnesses
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 8 Classical meanings
أَمْعَنَ
To go far in running; by extension, to go far, deeply, or beyond bounds in a pursuit, matter, or affair.
Form IV. Used with في in constructions such as going far in a search or going deeply into a thing or affair.
- Lane · entry 5775
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أَمْعَنَ بِحَقِّي
To go away with or take away a right belonging to someone.
A construction with بِـ, also reported with لِي بِحَقِّي.
- Lane · entry 5775
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مَعَنَ الماءُ / مَاءٌ مَعِينٌ
For water to flow; flowing or running water, including a small stream.
Of a valley, the verb may describe its having abundant running water.
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المَعْنُ
The drawing of water.
- Lane · entry 5776
أَمْعَنَتِ الأَرْضُ / كَلَأٌ مَمْعُونٌ
For land to become watered; of pasture, to have water run through it.
Used of land and vegetation in constructions describing the effect or presence of flowing water.
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مَعْنٌ
Easy or manageable; of someone, accommodating or readily able to deal with a need.
Used in relation to a person's need. In the expression غير معن, it means “not easy” or “not readily manageable.”
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مَعَانٌ
A dwelling or place of residence.
The reported plural is مُعُن.
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مَعْنَةٌ
In a set idiom, an amount that is neither much nor little.
Occurs in ما له سَعْنَةٌ ولا مَعْنَةٌ. The explanation connecting this idiom with the root's central sense is presented as tentative.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The derivational relation of مَاءٌ مَعِينٌ to this root is treated cautiously because the supplied discussion also reports an analysis deriving it from عَيْن with an additional m.
The idiomatic interpretation of ما له سَعْنَةٌ ولا مَعْنَةٌ and its connection with the root are explicitly tentative in the supplied evidence.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
qac-form:mEn:maAEuwn:nominal:- / qf:word:107:7:2: The Quranic form مَاعُونَ occurs at 107:7:2 with the contextual gloss “small kindnesses,” but the packet supplies no direct lexical explanation of this headword from Lane or Mufradat. It is therefore not assigned a Quranic sense.