علق

عَلِقَ

To hang from, cling to, catch upon, adhere to, or remain fast to something; by extension, to be held fast by an opponent or circumstance.

Used with the relevant prepositions or objects for physical attachment, being caught in a snare, and figurative holding fast.

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عَلِقَ

To depend upon something as a condition.

The dependent matter is construed with عَلَى or عَلَيْهِ.

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عَلِقَ

To pertain to, concern, or give someone a hold or interest in something.

A figurative extension of attachment to a matter or affair.

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عَلِقَ

To become attached in love; to love with a desirous or heart-clinging attachment.

The attachment may be expressed with بِ or فِي; the lexical evidence includes love between a man and a woman and persistent love generally.

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عَلِقٌ

Persistent adherence or tenacity; being intent on a matter and not letting it go.

Also applied to a person or soul that remains devoted to, or persistently clings to, something.

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عَلِقَ

To take hold and have its effect.

Used of old age or anything whose effects have taken hold in their proper place.

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عَلِقَ

To pasture, or to feed by reaching and taking leaves or other plant matter with the mouth.

Used of camels and other animals feeding on trees, pasture, or a plant; the image is of reaching into vegetation and taking hold of it.

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عَلِقَ

To engage in persistent contention, disputation, or litigation.

The figurative sense presents an antagonist as clinging to an opponent or to an argument.

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يَعْلَقُ

To suit, befit, or be appropriate to someone.

Recorded especially in the negative expression لَا يَعْلَقُ بِكَ.

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عَلِقَ

To set about, begin, or betake oneself to doing something.

The action begun is expressed by the following verb or verbal phrase.

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عَلِقَ

To continue without ceasing to say or do something.

A contrary lexical use is recorded in مَا عَلِقْتُ أَقُولُهُ, meaning that the speaker did not cease saying it.

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عَلِقَ

To eat or take food; of a child, to suck the fingers.

Used of animals taking leaves, fruit, or other food with the mouth and of a child sucking his fingers.

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عَلَقَهُ بِلِسَانِهِ

To revile, blame, or censure someone by saying something he dislikes.

A transitive verbal construction involving the tongue.

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عَلِقَ أَمْرَهُ

To know or understand an affair.

A separately recorded verbal use with أَمْرَهُ as its object.

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عَلِقَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ

To conceive or become pregnant.

Used of a woman; the lexical image is that conception has taken hold.

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عَلَق

Leeches or blood-sucking aquatic worms that cling to the throat or mouth of a person or animal and suck blood.

Also used of a person or animal to whose throat leeches have clung while drinking.

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عَلَّقَ

To hang, suspend, attach, or cause something to cling to another thing.

The object may be hung on, behind, or from another object; the construction also includes attaching an amulet or making a structure supported above the ground.

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عَلَّقَ

To make a matter depend on a condition.

Used with بِ or عَلَى for conditional dependence.

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عَلَّقَ

To append or place a note in the margin of a book or writing.

A specialized literary use derived from attaching something to a written work.

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عَلَّقَ

To set up and fix a door in a house.

The construction describes attaching or installing the door to the house.

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عَلَّقَ

To close or fasten a door with a latch or sliding bolt.

Distinct from locking with a key; the described implement is attached to and pushed against the door.

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عَلَّقَ دَمَ فُلَانٍ

To attach responsibility for a person's blood to oneself, as the killer of that person.

The recorded wording is textually uncertain between active and passive readings, but the reported construction concerns liability for a killing.

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عَلَّقَ

To join someone and overtake him.

A derived verbal use recorded without a further constructional restriction.

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عَلَّقَ

To learn something and take or receive it from another.

The sense concerns acquiring information or an item from another person.

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عَلَّقَ

To give someone something that sustains or arrests what remains of his life.

Used of providing food or another thing sufficient to preserve remaining life.

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عَلَّقَ عَلِيقَةً

To send a camel with a person or group to bring grain or provisions for the sender.

The camel is sent for provisioning and may be used by turns rather than as the sender's constant mount.

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عَلِّقْ لِنَاقَتِكِ

To leave or move away from one's she-camel.

Recorded as an imperative expression meaning to go away from the camel.

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عَالَقَ

To vie or contend with someone for superiority in precious things, or to wager precious articles against him.

The object of rivalry is a valued or precious possession.

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مِعْلَاق

A cord, thong, strap, or implement by which something is hung or attached.

Used of suspension devices for a bow, whip, sword, shield, book, Quran copy, water-skin, vessel, meat, grapes, or similar objects.

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أَعْلَقَ

To cause game or another animal to be caught or stuck in a snare.

Used of the hunter or the snare that results in the animal's being held fast.

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أَعْلَقَ

To apply or let leeches attach to a place so that they draw blood.

A medical or therapeutic causative use.

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أَعْلَقَ

To find, encounter, or light upon a precious article of property.

The object encountered is something rare or highly valued.

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أَعْلَقَ

To bring about a calamity or misfortune.

Used in the expression أَعْلَقَ وَأَفْلَقَ and related expressions for bringing about something disastrous.

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أَعْلَقَ عَنْهُ

To remove a calamity or misfortune from someone.

A causative-with-removal construction recorded separately from bringing about a calamity.

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أَعْلَقَ

To press or raise a child's throat swelling with the finger as a traditional treatment.

The action concerns the swelling called عُذْرَة near the uvula.

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أَعْلَقَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ

To put one's hand into one's throat to induce vomiting.

A reflexive medical or bodily action.

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أَعْلَقَتِ الْبِلَادُ

To become distant or remote.

Recorded as a usage said of countries or regions.

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عَلْق

A tear, fray, or pulled place in a garment or similar material caused by catching on a thorn or tree.

The noun may also denote the thing that catches and pulls the garment.

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عَلْق

The act of reviling or abusive reproach.

An infinitival noun corresponding to the verbal use of blaming by the tongue.

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عَلْق

A tree used for tanning.

A botanical and technical noun distinct from the attachment senses.

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عِلْق

A precious, highly valued, or carefully treasured thing; especially valued property, clothing, a shield, a sword, or similar goods.

The recorded definition excludes animate beings in its primary formulation; the word can also be applied specifically to a valued garment or property.

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عِلْق

Wine, especially old wine, viewed as something highly prized.

A figurative extension of the meaning ‘precious or highly valued.’

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عِلْقُ

A person strongly devoted to or pursuing a subject, whether knowledge, good, or evil.

Constructed with the pursued object, such as عِلْقُ عِلْمٍ.

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عِلْق

A travelling provisions-bag or travelling pack.

A separate nominal use recorded for a travel container.

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عَلَق

Something hung or suspended, including a suspended cluster of grapes or dates and, in a conventional expression, suspended odes.

This denotes the suspended object itself rather than the cord or implement used to suspend it.

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عَلَق

The gear or apparatus of a pulley well, including its suspensory rope, pulley, bucket, axle, and associated supports.

The exact scope varies in the reported descriptions, from the pulley apparatus to the complete equipment for drawing water.

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عُلْقَة

A small quantity or bare sufficiency of food, fodder, pasture, or means of subsistence; something remaining that is enough to sustain life.

Used of human food, animal provisions, a remaining share, or a limited livelihood; it can also describe being content with little.

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عِلْقَة

A small or short garment, such as a sleeveless shirt or an unsewn-sided garment worn to the waist.

The lexical evidence records several garment types under this headword, including a child's first garment and a girl's work garment.

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عِلْقَة

A shield.

A separate nominal use recorded alongside the garment sense.

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عَلْقَى

A particular desert plant or tree whose slender twigs are used for brooms.

The plant is described as remaining green in hot weather and growing in sandy or open tracts; its grammatical number is reported variably.

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عِلْقَات

Race, stock, or family line.

Recorded as one interpretation of a dialectal expression; another interpretation treats the form as a plural of عِلْق meaning precious things.

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عَلَاقِ

Cling, cleave, or stick fast.

An imperative verbal noun used as a command.

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عَلُوق

Death or the decree of death, understood as something that clings to a person.

A poetic and proverbial nominal use; the same form may also denote a calamity in related contexts.

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عَلُوق

The stallion's semen, according to one interpretation of a poetic use.

A reported interpretation connected with the change in the she-camels after conception; it is distinct from the general pasture sense.

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عَلُوق

Milk remaining in a she-camel's udder; in the negative expression, no milk remains because it has all been milked.

Used in مَا بِالنَّاقَةِ عَلُوقٌ and related expressions.

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عَلُوق

A she-camel that does not properly accept or nurse a young one, or that inclines to it but later refuses it or withholds her milk.

The descriptions vary as to whether the camel rejects the young one from the outset or accepts it briefly before driving it away; the related proverb extends the image to speech without corresponding action.

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عَلُوق

A woman who loves no one other than her husband.

A figurative characterization derived from the idea of exclusive attachment.

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عَلُوق

A woman who suckles another person's child.

A specialized nominal use distinct from the she-camel sense.

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عَلُوق

Yawning.

A separately recorded lexical equivalence with ثُؤَبَاء.

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عَلِيق

Fodder, especially barley or similar provender hung in a nose-bag for a horse or other beast.

The noun is associated with feeding an animal by hanging the food from it.

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عَلَاقَة

An attachment, tie, or connection between things or persons.

The noun covers mental attachments such as love or contention and extrinsic attachments involving objects such as a bow or whip.

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عَلَاقَة

A retained claim, share, right, or obligation attaching one person to another or to property.

Includes a remaining interest in a sale or house, an agreed portion of a dowry, obligations of bloodwits, and related blood-revenge claims.

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عَلَاقَة

A work, craft, possession, wife, child, love, contention, or other concern to which a person is attached.

A collective use for the affairs or attachments belonging to a person.

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عَلَائِق

Articles of merchandise or goods.

Recorded as a plural use of the attachment-related noun.

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عِلَاقَة

A surname or by-name attached to a person.

The naming sense is explained through attachment to the person who bears it.

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عَلِيقَة

A nose-bag or feed-bag hung from the head of a horse or similar animal.

A later or current use of the container associated with hanging fodder on an animal.

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عُلَّاق

A particular plant, recorded without further botanical specification.

The source gives the plant name but does not identify it with the more fully described عَلْقَى or عُلَّيْق.

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عُلَّيْق

A thorny climbing plant that catches objects in its hooked thorns and makes them difficult to free.

The name is extended to several related plants, including bramble-like or climbing species.

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عَوْلَق

A ghoul or similar demon.

A distinct lexical noun recorded under the root despite its divergent form.

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عَوْلَق

A female animal vehemently desirous of the male.

The source applies the expression specifically to a bitch; the meaning is sexual desire rather than general attachment.

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عَوْلَق

A long tail, especially in the expression for a long or prolix narrative.

The expression طَوِيلُ العَوْلَقِ is explained as ‘long in the tail’ and may be applied beyond narratives.

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عَوْلَق

Hunger.

A figurative use recorded as equivalent to another term for hunger.

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تَعَلُّقَات

Dependencies, appurtenances, circumstances, or concerns belonging to a thing, person, or case.

The source identifies this as a post-classical technical usage.

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تَعْلِيقَة

A pendant, coin, or similar ornament suspended from a woman's jewelry; also an appendix or marginal note attached to a book.

These are separate later nominal developments based on the idea of something attached or suspended.

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مِعْلَق

A small milking vessel or drinking cup hung by a rider from the saddle.

A specialized container name distinguished from the general suspensory implement.

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ذُو مَعْلَقَة

A man who attacks and plunders, clinging to everything he finds or obtains.

A conventional characterization of a grasping raider.

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مِعْلَقَة

An implement or utensil used by a shepherd, probably for hanging provisions or equipment.

The precise object is not further identified in the lexical report.

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مُعَلَّق

Left undecided, unresolved, or in suspense.

Used of a person's affair when he neither decides it nor relinquishes it; the Quranic marital specialization is listed separately under مُعَلَّقَة.

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مِعْلَاق

A stirrup leather.

A specialized equipment sense distinct from cords and straps used to suspend objects.

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مِعْلَاق

A man's tongue, especially an eloquent or forceful tongue.

A figurative sense based on a tongue that clings to arguments or words.

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مَعَالِيق

A variety or kind of palm trees.

Recorded only in the plural form.

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مَعْلُوق

A suspended cluster or bunch of grapes or dates.

The form denotes the thing that has been hung, not the device by which it is hung.

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عُلَقٌ

A numerous company or collection of people.

A nominal plural use describing a large group or gathering.

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عُلُقٌ

Deaths, calamities, businesses, occupations, or occurrences that divert a person from other things.

The form is also used for matters that cause one to forget, neglect, or be unmindful of other concerns.

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