ءَامَنَ
Āmana: to believe, have faith
The 20th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
ءَامَنَ (āmana) means "to believe, have faith". It appears 537 times in the Quran, making it the 20th most common word: about 0.69% of all the words you read.
Example from the Quran
فَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
Al-Inshiqaq 84:20 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:3.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways ءَامَنَ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- ءَامَنُوا۟212×
- يُؤْمِنُونَ86×
- ءَامَنُوٓا۟41×
- ءَامَنَّا31×
- ءَامَنَ26×
Verbs are listed by their past-tense "he" form, as in Arabic dictionaries. The count includes every form of the verb, such as "he says", "they said" and "say!".
Related words from the same root
ءَامَنَ comes from the root أ م ن. Other common words from this root: مُؤْمِن (believer).
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.