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What Does An-nar (النَّار) Mean in the Quran?

النَّار
an-nar
the fire
Word type
noun

This page studies النَّار as the written form shown in the mushaf. Attached letters and related inflections are studied separately so the examples stay precise.

In the Quran
102 times

Counted from Barakah’s bundled word-by-word Quran data for this exact written form after vowel marks are removed. Forms with attached letters or pronouns may have their own separate count.

Inside the Quran

النَّار (an-nar) means the fire. It can mean ordinary fire, but most Quranic uses in this form refer to the punishment of the Hereafter.

Read it inside the complete ayat below. The surrounding words decide the most natural English rendering, so the translation may use more than one English phrase for the same Arabic form.

See it in real ayat
ٱلنَّارِ ذَاتِ ٱلْوَقُودِ

[Containing] the fire full of fuel,

ٱلَّذِى يَصْلَى ٱلنَّارَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ

[He] who will [enter and] burn in the greatest Fire,

يَوْمَ هُمْ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ يُفْتَنُونَ

[It is] the Day they will be tormented over the Fire.

Arabic quoted letter for letter from the Uthmani text of our Quran reader. Translation: Saheeh International.

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