Grammar term · Nahw · syntax
تَوْكِيد
tawkid
Corroborative emphasis (tawkid)
Nahw · syntaxSyntactic roleadvanced term2,766+ in the Qur'an
In one line
Corroboration — a follower (نفس، كل، عين…) that emphasises its noun and shares its case.
Classical definition
التَّوْكِيدُ تَابِعٌ لِلْمُؤَكَّدِ فِي رَفْعِهِ وَنَصْبِهِ وَخَفْضِهِ وَتَعْرِيفِهِ.
“The tawkid follows the emphasised word in its raf', its nasb, its khafd and its definiteness.”
(الآجرّومية)
Key words in the Arabic
الْمُؤَكَّدthe word being emphasised
Understand it
A small set of words — نَفْس، عَيْن، كُلّ، أَجْمَع — repeat after a noun to shut the door on doubt: جَاءَ الْقَوْمُ كُلُّهُمْ, “the people came, all of them”. The emphasiser copies the case of its noun and carries a pronoun linking back to it. فَسَجَدَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ كُلُّهُمْ أَجْمَعُونَ (al-Hijr 15:30) stacks two of them — total emphasis.
How to spot it
Recognition test
Words like كُلّ، نَفْس، عَيْن repeating to stress the noun, and matching its case, are tawkid.
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