Quranic root
متن
m · t · n
A root principle of solidity or firmness combined with extension and length.
The physical base appears in firm elevated ground, the back and its solid paired flesh, and the hard or central parts of objects. It extends figuratively to strength, making something strong, strenuous distance, and other forms of firmness or extension.
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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.
مَتِين
matīn
- Part of speech
- Adjective · also substantivized
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
Strong and firm; possessing strength or firmness to a high degree.
Used adjectivally for a firm quality or thing, and substantivized with the definite article in the divine epithet “the Strong.”
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Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 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 19 Classical meanings
مَتَّنَ
To make or render something strong, stout, firm, or hard.
Derived Form II causative use.
- Lane · entry 5606
مَتَّنَ
To season a skin with rob, or inspissated juice.
A specialized treatment of skins.
- Lane · entry 5606
مَتْن
The back, especially the firm fleshy portions alongside the backbone; the erector-spinae region.
The paired form مَتْنَانِ or مَتْنَتَانِ denotes the two sides or portions of the back.
- Lane · entry 5607
مَتْن
The broad side or middle portion of a sword blade, including its raised central ridge.
A specific term for the blade’s broad central surface or ridge.
- Lane · entry 5607
مَتْن
The hard outer or apparent part of a thing.
A general term for a thing’s hard, visible exterior.
- Lane · entry 5607
مَتْن
The middle of a bow or spear.
Denotes the central section of the implement.
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مَتْن
The part between two poles of a house or tent.
A structural term for the span between the poles.
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مَتْن
Elevated, level, or plain ground; especially hard elevated ground.
Descriptions vary between elevated plain ground and hard elevated terrain.
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مَتْنُ الفَرَسِ
One of the four bright stars in Pegasus, specifically the star at the extremity of the neck.
An astronomical proper-name usage.
- Lane · entry 5607
مَتْن
A transmitted tradition or report, especially one attributed to Muhammad or one of his Companions.
A technical or scholarly term equivalent to a hadith, report, or transmitted account.
- Lane · entry 5607
أَمْتَنُ حَلَاوَةً
Sweeter; more sweet.
Comparative construction with حَلَاوَةً.
- Lane · entry 5610
تَمْتِين
The threads or strings of tents.
A specialized tent-making term.
- Lane · entry 5612
مَتُنَ
To become strong or acquire firmness.
Intransitive development into the quality expressed by مَتِين.
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مَتَنَ
To strike someone on the back.
The back-oriented construction may specify striking with a whip.
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مَتَنَ يَوْمَهُ
To travel through or spend the whole day in movement.
A figurative extension from traversing an extended span.
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مُمَاتَنَة
To go far or travel a long, strenuous distance; to extend or separate to the utmost.
Also describes a journey that is severe and far-reaching.
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مَاتَنَهُ
To delay or procrastinate with someone.
A conventional Form III usage.
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مُمَاتَنَةُ الشَّاعِرَيْنِ
To engage in a poetic exchange, with each of two poets composing a verse in turn.
A conventional description of poets extending a contest toward an intended end.
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مَتَنَ الدَّابَّةَ
To slit an animal’s scrotum and extract its testicle.
A rare veterinary usage explicitly reported as exceptional.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The three Quran occurrences form one QAC nominal group, tagged as two nouns and one adjective; the public headword is normalized to مَتِين, with the substantivized use retained in its usage conditions.