Quranic root
أرك
ʾ · r · k
The evidence presents two principal axes: the arāk tree and remaining or settling in a place.
The tree axis extends to grazing, arāk-rich land, camel descriptions, and dense or mature growth. The abiding axis extends to staying, persistence, withdrawal, compulsion, and the couch term أَرِيكَةٌ, explained through a place of abode or association with arāk wood.
- Maqāyīs · row 71
- Lane · entry 6565
- Lane · entry 6570
- Lane · entry 6572
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَرِيكَةٌ
ʾarīkahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 5 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A raised, ornamentally furnished couch or reclining seat.
The supplied Quran occurrences use the plural أَرَائِكُ for elevated furnished seats or couches on which people recline. Contextual renderings may vary between “couches” and “thrones” without requiring separate lexical senses.
- Lane · entry 6572
Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 18:31ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ ۚadorned couches
- 36:56ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ[the] couches
- 76:13ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ ۖcouches
- 83:23ٱلْأَرَآئِكِthrones
- 83:35ٱلْأَرَآئِكِthe thrones
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 13 Classical meanings
أَرَكَ / أَرِكَ
To remain, continue, or abide in a place, especially among trees while feeding.
The broader use may describe a person remaining in a place, or camels remaining among arāk or other trees.
- Lane · entry 6565
أَرَكَ
To persist or persevere in an affair.
A tropical extension of remaining or continuing, used with an affair.
- Lane · entry 6565
أَرَكَ
To hold back or draw back in an affair.
A reported tropical use distinct from persistence.
- Lane · entry 6565
أَرَكَ الإِبِلَ
To feed camels upon arāk, or to make them feed or remain among such trees.
A transitive Form I construction involving camels and arāk trees.
- Lane · entry 6565
أَرَكَ الأَمْرَ فِي عُنُقِهِ
To compel or constrain someone to undertake an affair, or to make that person keep or cleave to it.
A transitive tropical construction with a person and an affair.
- Lane · entry 6565
أَرَكَتِ الإِبِلُ / إِبِلٌ أَرِكَةٌ
Of camels, to suffer a belly complaint or pain caused by eating arāk.
The associated adjective also describes camels affected in this way.
- Lane · entry 6565
- Lane · entry 6569
أَرَّكَ
To conceal someone by means of an أَرِيكَةٌ.
Form II; the construction refers to concealment using a couch, canopy, or curtained enclosure.
- Lane · entry 6566
ائْتَرَكَ
Of arāk, to become firm, strong, compact, mature, tangled, luxuriant, or abundant.
Form VIII, used of the arāk tree or its growth.
- Lane · entry 6567
إِرْكٌ
Herbage in which camels remain or continue.
A noun for grazing vegetation associated with camels’ remaining there.
- Lane · entry 6568
أَرَاكٌ / أَرِكٌ
The arāk tree, a known thorny tree with bunch-like fruit and abundant branches.
Its branches and roots are used for tooth-cleaning; the term can also describe abundant, tangled, or luxuriant arāk growth.
- Lane · entry 6569
- Lane · entry 6570
أَرْضٌ أَرِكَةٌ
Land or a piece of ground abounding in arāk trees.
A descriptive expression for arāk-rich terrain.
- Lane · entry 6569
- Lane · entry 6570
إِبِلٌ أَرِكَةٌ
Camels that feed upon arāk or remain among such trees.
The description is also associated with the plural form أَوَارِكُ.
- Lane · entry 6574
قَوْمٌ مُؤْرِكُونَ
A people or company who alight and abide by arāk trees while feeding their camels there.
A descriptive participial expression for people settled by arāk trees in connection with camel grazing.
- Lane · entry 6575
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic public headword is normalized to singular أَرِيكَةٌ, while all five supplied Quran occurrences are inflected plural forms أَرَائِكُ.
The Lane citation to “xviii. 30” is retained only as historical lexical evidence and is not converted into a modern verse location; the examples use the independently supplied QAC locations.
The supplied contextual renderings vary between couches and thrones; this variation does not by itself establish an additional sense.