عَنْ
ʿan: about, from
The 23rd most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
عَنْ (ʿan) means "about, from". It appears 465 times in the Quran, making it the 23rd most common word: about 0.6% of all the words you read.
#23most common word
465times in the Quran
0.6%of all the words
422ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ
An-Naba 78:1 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:36.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways عَنْ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- عَن115×
- عَنِ70×
- عَنْهُمْ51×
- عَمَّا44×
- عَنْهُ37×
Small words like this are among the most frequent in the Quran. The count includes every time it appears, including with "and" or "so" attached.
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.