Quran glossary · draft

تَرْكَنُوا · تَرْكَنُ

lean toward

To incline toward someone as a point of attachment or support.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: ركن

Lemmas: تركن

Forms: تَرْكَنُ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

11:113

وَلَا تَرْكَنُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ فَتَمَسَّكُمُ ٱلنَّارُ وَمَا لَكُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مِنْ أَوْلِيَآءَ ثُمَّ لَا تُنصَرُونَ

17:74

وَلَوْلَآ أَن ثَبَّتْنَٰكَ لَقَدْ كِدتَّ تَرْكَنُ إِلَيْهِمْ شَيْـًٔا قَلِيلًا

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all four occurrences. At 11:80 the noun is a wished-for strong support, while the two finite verbs prohibit or nearly enact leaning toward people. At 51:39 Pharaoh turns away بِرُكْنِهِ, preserving the supporting-side image but leaving whether the expression foregrounds his bodily side, personal strength, or backing unresolved. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule. That sole possessive construction remains a segment-linked review point; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.