Quranic root
ألو
ʾ · l · w
The supplied evidence centers on falling short or being remiss, with related branches of effort, ability, withholding, and oath-taking.
No Maqāyīs or Mufradāt root-level discussion was supplied, so a stronger historical root principle is not assigned.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَلَا
ʾalā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To fall short or be remiss in doing what is required; to fail to spare effort in an action.
In the Quranic occurrence, the verb is used with a negative particle and an object of harmful action: they do not fall short in corrupting you.
- Lane · entry 7104
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:118word 10
“they will spare you”
آلَى
ʾālā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To swear an oath, especially to bind oneself by oath not to perform an act.
The Quranic construction concerns swearing off sexual relations with one's wives; the verb may also be construed with على or with من when abstention is implied.
- Lane · entry 7106
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:226word 2
“swear (off)”
ائْتَلَى
āʾtalā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To fall short or be remiss in carrying out an action.
This is a reported alternative interpretation of the Quranic occurrence in 24:22; the supplied evidence gives the oath-taking interpretation as preferable.
- Lane · entry 7104
To swear or bind oneself by an oath not to do something.
In the Quranic occurrence, the oath concerns refraining from charitable support for relatives and others; this is the preferred interpretation in the supplied evidence.
- Lane · entry 7106
Selected Quran examples
Quran 24:22word 2
“let swear”
آلَاء
ʾālāʾ
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 34 occurrences
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:226يُؤْلُونَswear (off)
- 3:118يَأْلُونَكُمْthey will spare you
- 7:69ءَالَآءَ(the) Bounties
- 7:74ءَالَآءَ(the) Bounties
- 24:22يَأْتَلِlet swear
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 26 Classical meanings
أَلَا
To leave off, cease from, omit, or neglect something or an action.
Used with a thing or with a following verbal clause.
- Lane · entry 7104
أَلَا
To be slow, tardy, languid, or weak in carrying out an action.
A related state expressed by the Form I verb and its derived usages.
- Lane · entry 7104
أَلَا
To strive, labor, or exert one's power or ability to accomplish a matter.
Used in expressions describing effort made to fulfill a need or task.
- Lane · entry 7104
أَلَا
To be able to perform or accomplish something.
The verb may be used transitively for being able to do a specified thing.
- Lane · entry 7104
أَلَا
To withhold, refuse, stint, or deprive someone of something, including advice or assistance.
This is a constructional use in which the verb conveys refusal or failure to provide something to another person.
- Lane · entry 7104
أَلَا
To give someone a thing or provide it to him.
A transitive use recorded as the contrary of refusing or withholding something.
- Lane · entry 7104
آلَتْ
Of a woman, to take, make, or prepare a miʾlāh, a cloth used in wailing.
A specialized use associated with the feminine form recorded in this entry.
- Lane · entry 7106
أُولُو، أُولَاتُ
Possessors of, those endowed with, or persons having a specified quality or thing.
أُولُو is a prefixed plural form with no independent singular of its own; its corresponding feminine form is أُولَاتُ.
- Lane · entry 7110
إِلَى
To, toward, or as far as the endpoint of a spatial or temporal extent.
The endpoint may be included or excluded according to the construction and context; with a time expression it means until.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
With, together with, or in addition to another person or thing.
Used when one thing is joined or added to another, including Quranic constructions with the sense of accompaniment or addition.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
A particle marking the person or object in relation to whom something is more pleasing, hateful, or otherwise evaluated.
Occurs after verbs of wonder and nouns of excess in a conventional comparative or affective construction.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
At, or in the estimation of, someone.
A prepositional use synonymous with عِنْدَ in expressions of personal judgment or preference.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
To, for, or ultimately referred or committed to someone.
This includes uses explained as equivalent to لِ, expressing possession, responsibility, destination of command, or final reference.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
Against or upon someone in a construction of decree; by extension, decisively revealed or communicated to someone.
A Quran-attested construction in which the preposition is explained as equivalent to عَلَى or as conveying decisive revelation.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
In or into; and, in an invitational construction, toward an action one is invited to undertake.
The first use is explained as equivalent to فِي; the second occurs in the construction إِلَى أَنْ followed by an action.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
From or beginning at a point of origin.
A rare reversal of the ordinary endpoint sense, attested in poetic usage.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
In the elliptical expression إِلَيْكَ, to complain or turn oneself over to God.
A fixed elliptical devotional expression with the omitted complement understood from context.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
Related or belonging to someone, as in the expression مِنْكَ وَإِلَيْكَ.
An idiomatic expression describing relation or affiliation.
- Lane · entry 7111
إِلَى
In elliptical imperatives, to take or attend to something; with عَنْ, to withdraw, keep away, or refrain from someone.
The forms إِلَيْكَ كَذَا and إِلَيْكَ عَنِّي are imperative verbal-noun constructions.
- Lane · entry 7111
أَلِيَّةٌ
Falling short of what is requisite; remissness, slowness, or tardiness.
A substantive derived from the Form I branch of falling short or being remiss.
- Lane · entry 7114
أَلِيَّةٌ
An oath.
The noun has the plural أَلَايَا and belongs to the oath-taking branch.
- Lane · entry 7114
أَلَىُّ
One who swears much or utters many oaths.
An adjectival description of a person frequently given to oath-taking.
- Lane · entry 7113
آلٍ
Falling short, remiss, slow, or tardy.
An adjectival form; its plural is also recorded.
- Lane · entry 7116
آلٍ
Niggardly, penurious, or avaricious; unable or unwilling to fulfill duties, obligations, or debts.
A specialized adjectival extension describing failure to meet obligations.
- Lane · entry 7116
مِئْلَاةٌ
A piece of cloth held by a woman while wailing and used for making gestures; also, a rag used for menstruation.
A specialized noun for a cloth or rag, with the plural مَآلٍ.
- Lane · entry 7117
مُتَأَلّ
One who presumes to pronounce judgment about God's judgment, such as assigning people to Paradise or Hell.
A participial form associated with Form V, preserved here as a specialized Classical and traditional usage.
- Lane · entry 7118
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic nominal آلَاء occurs 34 times with contextual renderings such as “favors” and “bounties,” but no direct Lane or Mufradāt lexical explanation for that sense is supplied; it is therefore displayed without a numbered sense rather than assigning a contextual gloss as lexical evidence.
For 24:22, the supplied evidence records both a falling-short interpretation and a preferred oath-taking interpretation. The secure QAC morphology identifies the occurrence as Form VIII.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The Quranic form group qac-form:Alw:'aAlaA^':nominal:- is contextually glossed as “favors” or “bounties,” but the packet supplies no direct Lane or Mufradāt evidence establishing that nominal meaning.