Quranic root
حلي
ḥ · l · y
The root centers on ornament and adornment, together with the visible qualities or appearance associated with ornament.
The lexical evidence extends from acquiring, applying, and wearing physical ornaments to describing a person’s qualities or appearance, with derived forms also expressing self-adornment and affectation.
- Lane · entry 15523
- Lane · entry 15524
- Lane · entry 15525
- Lane · entry 15531
- Mufradāt · row 354
- 2
- Quran-attested forms
- 2
- Quran senses
- 9
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حَلَّى
ḥallā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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.
To adorn or deck someone with ornaments.
All supplied Quran occurrences are passive Form II forms, describing people as being adorned; the cited construction is transitive in the ornaments applied.
- Lane · entry 15524
- Mufradāt · row 354
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:31word 9
“They will be adorned”
Quran 76:21word 6
“And they will be adorned”
حِلْيَة
ḥilyah
- 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.
An ornament or adornment.
In the supplied Quran occurrences, the term denotes physical ornaments or adornment; the related Quranic plural form حُلِيّ is included under this citation form.
- Lane · entry 15527
- Mufradāt · row 354
Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 7:148حُلِيِّهِمْtheir ornaments
- 13:17حِلْيَةٍornaments
- 16:14حِلْيَةًۭornaments
- 18:31يُحَلَّوْنَThey will be adorned
- 22:23يُحَلَّوْنَThey will be adorned
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 21 Classical meanings
حَلَى
To assign or give ornaments to someone.
Form I; the supplied evidence gives the construction with a person receiving ornaments.
- Lane · entry 15523
حَلِيَ
To acquire, possess, or wear an ornament.
Form I; these uses describe having or wearing ornament rather than causing another person to be decked.
- Lane · entry 15523
حَلِيَ
To gain or derive profit, advantage, or benefit.
The supplied evidence records this idiomatic use chiefly in negative phrases.
- Lane · entry 15523
حَلَّى
To make an ornament for someone.
A Classical Form II use distinct from decking someone with an already existing ornament.
- Lane · entry 15524
حَلَّى
To describe a person, thing, or its qualities and attributes.
Form II; the object described may be a person’s qualities, state, or condition, or these may be described to another person.
- Lane · entry 15524
تَحَلَّى
To adorn oneself with an ornament or make an ornament for oneself.
Form V reflexive use.
- Lane · entry 15523
تَحَلَّى
To affect or claim qualities that one does not possess.
A figurative Form V use.
- Lane · entry 15525
تَحَلَّى
To recognize or know a person’s qualities, attributes, state, or condition.
Form V use connected with حِلْيَة in the sense of a person’s defining qualities.
- Lane · entry 15525
حِلْيَة
A person’s qualities, aggregate attributes, state, form, or outward appearance; also a description of the face.
This is the descriptive sense of the noun, not the physical ornament sense attested in the Quranic form.
- Lane · entry 15524
- Lane · entry 15531
حِلْيَة
The distinguishing marking of the limbs in the prescribed ablution.
A technical usage in discussion of ablution, identified with tahjīl.
- Lane · entry 15531
حَلْي
A decorative fitting or ornament, especially one applied to a sword, lamp, or similar object.
Classical object-specific use of the ornament term.
- Lane · entry 15527
حَلًا
Pustules breaking out in the mouths of children, reportedly after a fever.
A rare medical or colloquial lexical use.
- Lane · entry 15526
حَلِى
A cry used to chide a she-camel or female camels.
A dialectal animal-driving expression.
- Lane · entry 15528
حَلِيّ
Dry, dried up, or tough.
An adjectival use.
- Lane · entry 15532
حَلِيّ
A dried and whitish pasture plant or grass.
A botanical use, including the named desert pasture plants described in the evidence.
- Lane · entry 15532
حَلِيّ
The pole or long piece of wood between the two bulls of a plough.
A regional agricultural term reported for the dialect of Yemen.
- Lane · entry 15532
حُلَيَّا
A particular plant.
A specialized plant name.
- Lane · entry 15534
حُلَيَّا
An Arab food made by rubbing or pressing dates together by hand.
A specialized food term.
- Lane · entry 15534
حَالِيَة
A woman who has or wears an ornament or ornaments.
A nominal description derived from the ornament sense.
- Lane · entry 15535
حَالِيَة
Trees bearing leaves and fruit.
A figurative or tropical use explicitly marked as such in the evidence.
- Lane · entry 15535
مُحَلَّى
Ornamented or decorated, especially said of a sword.
A passive-participial adjectival use.
- Lane · entry 15536
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic Form II verb occurrences are passive, while the public headword is normalized to the active perfect citation form حَلَّى.
The packet contains no Maqayis entry; the root-level orientation therefore reflects the supplied Lane and Mufradat evidence rather than an independent Maqayis formulation.
Rare botanical, agricultural, animal-related, and technical uses are kept as Classical Arabic meanings and are not folded into the Quranic ornament senses.