Quranic root
صلح
ṣ · l · ḥ
A root expressing soundness, rightness, and the opposite of فساد, corruption or disorder.
The root develops from being sound or right to making something sound, restoring order, and removing estrangement between people.
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- Quran-attested forms
- 9
- Quran senses
- 180
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
صَلَحَ
ṣalaḥa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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 be or become sound, right, or righteous; to come into a proper state.
In the Quran, used of persons who are or have become righteous.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 13:23word 5
“(were) righteous”
Quran 40:8word 8
“(was) righteous”
أَصْلَحَ
ʾaṣlaḥa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 28 occurrences
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To set right, reform, restore, or improve a person, thing, affair, or condition.
Includes correcting or restoring something to a sound state, including reforming one's own conduct or affairs.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 47:2word 17
“and improve”
Quran 33:71word 1
“He will amend”
To reconcile parties, make peace, or restore accord between them.
Used for removing estrangement and repairing relations between people or groups.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 49:9word 6
“then make peace”
Quran 49:9word 23
“then make peace”
إِصْلَاح
ʾiṣlāḥ
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 7 occurrences
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Setting right, reforming, restoring, or improving.
The verbal noun of أَصْلَحَ in its general sense of bringing a person, affair, or condition into a sound state.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:56word 6
“its reformation”
Quran 2:220word 8
“Setting right (their affairs)”
Reconciliation or conciliation between people.
Used specifically for removing discord or restoring agreement between parties.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:35word 14
“reconciliation”
Quran 4:114word 14
“conciliation”
صَالِح
ṣāliḥ
- Part of speech
- Active participle, also substantivized
- Quran occurrences
- 127 occurrences
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Righteous or morally good; in substantivized use, a righteous person or a good or righteous act.
Applied in the Quran to morally upright persons and to good or righteous acts. The feminine plural صالحات is commonly substantivized for righteous deeds.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:122word 9
“the righteous”
Quran 16:97word 3
“righteous deeds”
Quran 103:3word 5
“righteous deeds”
Quran 4:34word 15
“So the righteous women”
صَالِح
ṣāliḥ
- Part of speech
- Proper noun
- Quran occurrences
- 9 occurrences
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Ṣāliḥ, the prophet sent to Thamūd.
A proper name, distinct from the adjective or active participle صَالِح.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:61word 4
“Salih”
Quran 11:62word 2
“O Salih”
صُلْح
ṣulḥ
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
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Reconciliation, peace, or an agreement ending contention.
Used for the removal of estrangement and the restoration of peaceful relations between parties.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:128word 15
“a reconciliation”
Quran 4:128word 16
“and [the] reconciliation”
مُصْلِح
muṣliḥ
- Part of speech
- Active participle, substantivized
- Quran occurrences
- 5 occurrences
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One who sets right or reforms; a reformer.
A substantivized active participle of Form IV, used for people engaged in reforming affairs or conduct.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:11word 11
“(are) reformers”
Quran 11:117word 8
“(were) reformers”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:11مُصْلِحُونَ(are) reformers
- 2:25ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ[the] righteous deeds
- 2:62صَـٰلِحًۭاrighteous deeds
- 2:82ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِrighteous deeds
- 2:130ٱلصَّـٰلِحِينَthe righteous
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 22 Classical meanings
صَلَحَ
To be suitable, fit, or meet for a person, purpose, or use.
A construction in which something is suitable for or fit for someone or something.
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صَالَحَ
To make peace or reconciliation with someone; to settle or compromise with another party.
May describe a settlement on specified terms, including a compromise between a creditor and debtor.
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أَصْلَحَ
To season, prepare, repair, mend, trim, or otherwise make an object fit for use.
Applied especially to objects, materials, provisions, or equipment requiring preparation or repair.
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أَصْلَحَ
To treat a person or animal well, benefit them, or do good to them.
A benefactive construction with a person or animal as the recipient of good treatment.
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اِنْصَلَحَ
To become rectified, sound, or put right.
A quasi-passive or intransitive counterpart of making something right.
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اِصْطَلَحَ
To make peace, become reconciled, or come to terms with one another.
Used of two people, parties, or a community restoring peaceful relations.
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اِصْطَلَحَ
To agree among themselves concerning a matter.
Used when people reach an agreement about a specified affair or arrangement.
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اِصْطِلَاح
A conventional or technical usage or term established by agreement.
Refers to naming or using an expression by convention rather than by its primary lexical application.
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اِسْتَصْلَحَ
To regard, esteem, or desire a person or thing as good, sound, right, or proper.
Describes an evaluative or desiderative stance toward a person or thing.
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اِسْتَصْلَحَ
To seek to make something good, sound, or right, including to bring a person into good or obedient conduct.
Expresses an effort or aim to produce improvement or good condition.
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اِسْتَصْلَحَ
To seek to do good or act well toward someone.
A benefactive construction directed toward a person.
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اِسْتَصْلَحَ
To seek peace or concord.
Expresses an effort to obtain peaceful relations or agreement.
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اِسْتَصْلَحَ
To turn out well or happen in a satisfactory way.
An intransitive use describing a favorable outcome.
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صُلْح
A formal peaceful compact or settlement, including relinquishment of contention; by extension, something surrendered or taken under such a settlement.
Includes legal or practical settlement language and peaceful surrender rather than capture by force.
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صُلْح
A party or group at peace with others.
The noun may function as an epithet for people who are in peaceful relations.
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صَلَاح
Goodness, soundness, rightness, rectitude, righteousness, virtue, or honesty; a good or right state or thing.
An abstract noun expressing the opposite of فساد, corruption or disorder.
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صَلَاح
A name of Mecca.
A proper-name use distinct from the abstract noun meaning goodness or rightness.
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صَالِح
Suitable, fit, or meet for a purpose or office.
An adjectival use describing fitness or appropriateness rather than moral righteousness.
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صَالِح
Much, copious, or frequent.
A figurative or extended adjectival use, especially of abundant rain or repeated occurrence.
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صَالِحَة
A benefit, beneficent act, or advantageous thing.
A feminine substantive derived from صَالِح, used of something good received from another person.
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مَصْلَحَة
A cause, means, occasion, or affair conducive to good; a beneficial interest or public good.
Contrasted with مفسدة, something conducive to harm or corruption; plural مصالح.
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مُتَصَلَّح
A place, garment, or object requiring repair or mending.
A passive-participial noun for something to be repaired.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The identical spelling صَالِح can be the active participle/adjective or the proper name Ṣāliḥ; QAC treats these as separate lexical groups.
The Quranic plural صالحات is presented under the singular active-participle citation form صَالِح.
The Quranic senses are restricted to usages supported by the supplied lexical evidence; additional Classical branches are listed separately.