س ن و Root s-n-w in the Qur’an 20 occurrences in 20 verses

Words from this root

Meanings are the most common word-by-word translations of each word in the Qur’an.

سِنِين 12 times

• 7:130 · Al-A'rafبِٱلسِّنِينَ with years (of famine)And We certainly seized the people of Pharaoh with years of famine and a deficiency in fruits that perhaps they would be reminded.
• 10:5 · Yunusٱلسِّنِينَ (of) the yearsIt is He who made the sun a shining light and the moon a derived light and determined for it phases - that you may know the number of years and account [of time]. Allah has not created this except in truth. He details the signs for a people who know
• 12:42 · Yusufسِنِينَ yearsAnd he said to the one whom he knew would go free, "Mention me before your master." But Satan made him forget the mention [to] his master, and Joseph remained in prison several years.
• 12:47 · Yusufسِنِينَ years[Joseph] said, "You will plant for seven years consecutively; and what you harvest leave in its spikes, except a little from which you will eat.
• 17:12 · Al-Israٱلسِّنِينَ (of) the yearsAnd We have made the night and day two signs, and We erased the sign of the night and made the sign of the day visible that you may seek bounty from your Lord and may know the number of years and the account [of time]. And everything We have set out in detail.
• 18:11 · Al-Kahfسِنِينَ years So We cast [a cover of sleep] over their ears within the cave for a number of years.
• 18:25 · Al-Kahfسِنِينَ yearsAnd they remained in their cave for three hundred years and exceeded by nine.
• 20:40 · Ta-Haسِنِينَ (some) years[And We favored you] when your sister went and said, 'Shall I direct you to someone who will be responsible for him?' So We restored you to your mother that she might be content and not grieve. And you killed someone, but We saved you from retaliation and tried you with a [severe] trial. And you remained [some] years among the people of Madyan. Then you came [here] at the decreed time, O Moses.
• 23:112 · Al-Mu'minunسِنِينَ (of) years[Allah] will say, "How long did you remain on earth in number of years?"
• 26:18 · Ash-Shu'araسِنِينَ years[Pharaoh] said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life?
• 26:205 · Ash-Shu'araسِنِينَ (for) yearsThen have you considered if We gave them enjoyment for years
• 30:4 · Ar-Rumسِنِينَ ۗ yearsWithin three to nine years. To Allah belongs the command before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice

سَنَة 7 times

• 2:96 · Al-Baqarahسَنَةٍۢ year(s)And you will surely find them the most greedy of people for life - [even] more than those who associate others with Allah. One of them wishes that he could be granted life a thousand years, but it would not remove him in the least from the [coming] punishment that he should be granted life. And Allah is Seeing of what they do.
• 5:26 · Al-Ma'idahسَنَةًۭ ۛ years[Allah] said, "Then indeed, it is forbidden to them for forty years [in which] they will wander throughout the land. So do not grieve over the defiantly disobedient people."
• 22:47 · Al-Hajjسَنَةٍۢ year(s)And they urge you to hasten the punishment. But Allah will never fail in His promise. And indeed, a day with your Lord is like a thousand years of those which you count.
• 29:14 · Al-'Ankabutسَنَةٍ year(s)And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them a thousand years minus fifty years, and the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers.
• 32:5 · As-Sajdahسَنَةٍۢ yearsHe arranges [each] matter from the heaven to the earth; then it will ascend to Him in a Day, the extent of which is a thousand years of those which you count.
• 46:15 · Al-Ahqafسَنَةًۭ year(s)And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] is thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, "My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims."
• 70:4 · Al-Ma'arijسَنَةٍۢ year(s)The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.

سَنا 1 time

• 24:43 · An-Nurسَنَا (the) flashDo you not see that Allah drives clouds? Then He brings them together, then He makes them into a mass, and you see the rain emerge from within it. And He sends down from the sky, mountains [of clouds] within which is hail, and He strikes with it whom He wills and averts it from whom He wills. The flash of its lightening almost takes away the eyesight.

How we count

Each Qur’an word whose stem comes from this root counts once. Attached prefixes and pronouns, such as wa- (and) or al- (the), are not counted separately. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. Verse translation: Saheeh International.