The word(s) "nay" appears 129 time(s) in 124 verse(s) in Quran in Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation.

(31) Jacob said: "nay, but ye have yourselves contrived a story (good enough) for you. So patience is most fitting (for me). Maybe Allah will bring them (back) all to me (in the end). For He is indeed full of knowledge and wisdom."

(32) When the caravan left (Egypt), their father said: "I do indeed scent the presence of Joseph: nay, think me not a dotard."

(33) nay, thunder repeateth His praises, and so do the angels, with awe: He flingeth the loud-voiced thunder-bolts, and therewith He striketh whomsoever He will.. yet these (are the men) who (dare to) dispute about Allah, with the strength of His power (supreme)!

(34) Is then He who standeth over every soul (and knoweth) all that it doth, (like any others)? And yet they ascribe partners to Allah. Say: "But name them! is it that ye will inform Him of something he knoweth not on earth, or is it (just) a show of words?" nay! to those who believe not, their pretence seems pleasing, but they are kept back (thereby) from the path. And those whom Allah leaves to stray, no one can guide.

(35) They would only say: "Our eyes have been intoxicated: nay, we have been bewitched by sorcery."

(36) "(Namely) those whose lives the angels take in a state of wrong-doing to their own souls." Then would they offer submission (with the pretence), "We did no evil (knowingly)." (The angels will reply), "nay, but verily Allah knoweth all that ye did;

(37) Do the (ungodly) wait until the angels come to them, or there comes the Command of thy Lord (for their doom)? So did those who went before them. But Allah wronged them not: nay, they wronged their own souls.

(38) They swear their strongest oaths by Allah, that Allah will not raise up those who die: nay, but it is a promise (binding) on Him in truth: but most among mankind realise it not.

(39) Say: "(nay!) be ye stones or iron,

(40) He said: "nay, I am only a messenger from thy Lord, (to announce) to thee the gift of a holy son.