Quranic root
تقن
t · q · n
The root has two principal semantic branches: making something firm, sound, and well-ordered; and sediment, mud, or clay. The material branch also extends to something used to improve or support an undertaking.
The firmness branch yields the causative sense of making something sound or perfectly executed, as well as the description of a skilled person. The second branch concerns muddy sediment used to improve land and, more broadly, useful means or materials.
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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.
أَتْقَنَ
ʾatqana
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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 make something firm, sound, thoroughly executed, and fitly fashioned or ordered; to perfect it.
In the Quranic occurrence, the verb is transitive and describes making all things firm, sound, and disposed in the proper manner.
- Lane · entry 16728
Selected Quran examples
Quran 27:88word 12
“perfected”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 27:88أَتْقَنَperfected
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 7 Classical meanings
تَقَّنَ
To treat or irrigate land with thick, muddy, or sediment-laden water so as to improve it.
A Form II verb used of land and the application of muddy water or water containing تِقْن.
- Lane · entry 16727
تِقْنٌ
Sediment, slime, or thick mud carried by water and deposited in a stream, torrent channel, or well.
The material may be used to improve land; descriptions include dark or fetid mud mixed with slime.
- Lane · entry 16729
تِقْنٌ
A resource, material, or means by which a person is supported or an affair is improved and well managed.
May refer to useful materials such as iron or other substances, and more generally to anything that improves an undertaking.
- Lane · entry 16729
أَتْقَنَ
To exercise or possess the skill required for an affair.
In the construction أَتْقَنَ لَهُ, said of having the requisite competence for a matter.
- Lane · entry 16728
أَتْقَنَ
To make one's knowledge sound and thorough, or to master and learn a report or tradition accurately.
Used with knowledge or learning, including the construction أَتْقَنَ عَنْهُ for learning something thoroughly from another person.
- Lane · entry 16728
تِقْنٌ
A skilled, capable, or adept person.
The associated proper name or surname ابن تِقْنٍ refers to a man proverbial for exceptional skill in shooting; this is an application of the sense ‘skilled person,’ not a separate basic meaning.
- Lane · entry 16729
تِقْنٌ
Nature, natural disposition, or an inherent quality.
Used of a quality that belongs to a person's nature, such as eloquence being part of his disposition.
- Lane · entry 16729
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Lane Quran citation is preserved as historical source evidence; the modern location 27:88:12 is used here only because it is independently supplied by QAC.