Quranic root
طلع
ṭ · l · ʿ
The root centers on appearing, emerging, and becoming manifest.
From physical rising or coming into view, the lexical development extends to reaching or approaching, looking into something to gain knowledge, making information known, and nouns for emergence, rising-places, and emerging palm produce.
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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.
طَلَعَ
ṭalaʿa
- 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 rise, appear, or emerge.
Used in the Quran of the sun becoming visible or rising, including with عَلَى to indicate what it rises upon or appears over.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:17word 4
“it rose”
Quran 18:90word 7
“rising”
أَطْلَعَ
ʾaṭlaʿa
- 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 make someone acquainted with something; to inform, disclose, or show it to them.
A causative construction in which a person is made to know or see an affair, including knowledge of what is otherwise hidden.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:179word 18
“to inform you”
اِطَّلَعَ
āiṭṭalaʿa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- Quran occurrences
- 7 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 look at, look over, or see.
Used for directing one's sight toward something or looking down upon it, including the act of seeing a person or thing.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:18word 15
“you had looked”
Quran 37:55word 1
“Then he (will) look”
To inspect or look into something so as to discover it or gain knowledge of it.
Used with an affair, hidden matter, or inward state; the result is acquaintance or knowledge obtained through looking into it.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:13word 19
“to discover”
Quran 19:78word 1
“Has he looked”
To rise over, reach, or penetrate as far as something.
In the Quranic construction describing the fire, the effect reaches or rises over the hearts. This is distinct from the visual and investigative uses of the form.
- Lane · entry 11571
Selected Quran examples
Quran 104:7word 2
“mounts up”
طَلْعٌ
ṭalʿun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
The emerging fruiting structure or spadix of a palm; by extension, emerging fruit or produce of a tree.
In the Quran it refers to palm produce and, by resemblance or emergence, to the produce of the tree of Zaqqum.
- Lane · entry 11579
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:99word 22
“its spathe”
Quran 26:148word 3
“its spadix”
Quran 37:65word 1
“Its emerging fruit”
Quran 50:10word 4
“(are) layers”
طُلُوعٌ
ṭulūʿun
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- 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.
Rising or emergence.
Used for the rising of the sun or other celestial light.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:130word 9
“(the) rising”
Quran 50:39word 9
“(the) rising”
مَطْلَعٌ
maṭlaʿun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
The rising or emergence of dawn.
In حَتَّى مَطْلَعِ الْفَجْرِ, the form is explained as the rising or emergence of dawn; related grammatical interpretations take the expression as its time or place of rising.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 97:5word 4
“(the) emergence”
مَطْلِعٌ
maṭliʿun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
The place from which something rises or appears.
Used in the Quran of the sun's rising place.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:90word 4
“(the) rising place”
مُطَّلِعٌ
muṭṭaliʿun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Looking, inspecting, or seeking to see.
The Quranic plural form describes people who wish to look and see for themselves.
- Lane · entry 11577
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 37:54word 4
“be looking”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:179لِيُطْلِعَكُمْto inform you
- 5:13تَطَّلِعُto discover
- 6:99طَلْعِهَاits spathe
- 18:17طَلَعَتit rose
- 18:18ٱطَّلَعْتَyou had looked
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 62 Classical meanings
طَلَعَ
To come up, come forth, or show itself, as a tooth, crop, plant, or leaves; of a palm, to put forth its spadix.
A plant-growth use extending the general notion of emergence to teeth, crops, vegetation, and palms.
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طَلَعَ
To overflow or pour out from the sides of a vessel.
Used when a filled liquid or vessel rises beyond its container.
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طَلَعَ
To ascend or climb a mountain.
The mountain may be expressed directly or with a suppressed or supplied preposition.
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طَلَعَ
To come forth upon or approach people, or to withdraw and become absent from them.
The direction and meaning vary with the accompanying preposition; the evidence records both approach and withdrawal uses.
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طَلَعَ
To turn, go, or make one's way toward a place or destination.
A figurative or extended use equivalent to heading toward or betaking oneself to a country or region.
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طَلَعَ
To reach or arrive at a land or destination.
A conventional extended use equivalent to reaching a place.
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طَلَّعَ
Of a palm, to put forth its spadix; also, in a usage described as vulgar, to put forth or produce something.
Form II usage connected with bringing something into emergence.
- Lane · entry 11572
طَلَّعَ
To fill a measure.
Used of filling a measure with grain or a similar substance.
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طَالَعَ
To inspect something carefully in order to know its condition.
Also used of studying or perusing books and of examining one's property.
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أَطْلَعَ
Of a palm, to become tall.
A reported extended use describing the palm's growth in height.
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أَطْلَعَ
To make an arrow pass above or beyond the target or butt.
An archery term for an arrow that goes over the mark.
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أَطْلَعَ
To vomit.
A specialized bodily-action use.
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أَطْلَعَ
Of the sky, to clear and for the rain to cease.
A weather expression equivalent to the clearing of rain.
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أَطْلَعَ
To raise one's head and look at something from above; to overlook it.
Used with the sense of looking down from an elevated position.
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أَطْلَعَ
To confer a benefit or favour upon someone.
An extended benefactive use.
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أَطْلَعَ
To make someone hasten or be quick.
A causative use describing induced speed or haste.
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تَطَلَّعَ
To become full to the top or so full as to overflow.
Used of a measure of grain or something similar.
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تَطَلَّعَ
To walk proudly or self-conceitedly, with an affected lofty gait and raised head.
A description of manner of walking and bearing.
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تَطَلَّعَ
To look out for or await the arrival of something.
Often followed by إِلَى and used of waiting expectantly for a person, meeting, letter, or event.
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تَطَلَّعَ
To desire, yearn for, or long for something.
Used of the soul's strong inclination toward an object of desire.
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تَطَلَّعَ
To seek out a slip or fault in someone's speech.
A conventional figurative use involving scrutiny for an error.
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تَطَلَّعَ
To look at someone with love or hatred.
A figurative description of a look characterized by affection or aversion.
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تَطَلَّعَ
To overcome or overtake someone.
A reported use applied to a person.
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تَطَالَعَتْهُ
To come to someone in the night, as apparitions or other things are said to do.
A Form VI construction for nocturnal visitations or appearances.
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اِطَّلَعَ
For one's eye to regard someone with contempt.
A specialized figurative use of seeing.
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اِسْتَطْلَعَ
To seek or solicit information, an opinion, or advice; to try to discover what will be disclosed.
May be transitive to a person and an object of knowledge, or used with the opinion or information itself.
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اِسْتَطْلَعَ
To take something away or go away with it.
Used, for example, of taking away another person's property.
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طَلْعٌ
A number, quantity, or stated amount.
Used in expressions giving the size or number of an army or similar group.
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طِلْعٌ
Knowledge, especially knowledge of a person's state, secret, or inward condition.
Used in expressions meaning to learn or reveal someone's hidden circumstances.
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طِلْعٌ
An elevated place from which one looks down over what surrounds it.
A topographic term for a lookout or elevated part of a hill.
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طِلْعٌ
A side, tract, or region adjacent to a valley or other place.
Used with a place-name to indicate its side or neighboring area.
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طِلْعٌ
A depressed piece of ground containing a hill or rise from which one can see within it.
A landscape term describing a hollow with an elevated viewing point.
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طِلْعٌ
A serpent.
A separate lexical noun reported in this form.
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طَلِعٌ
Desirous, eager, or vehemently eager.
Used of a soul or person strongly inclined toward an object.
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طَلْعَةٌ
A person's aspect, countenance, or face.
A noun for the visible appearance of a person.
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طُلَعَةٌ
A soul or person that is very eager for an object of desire.
A descriptive noun for repeated or intense longing.
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طُلَعَةٌ
A woman who comes forth at one time and conceals herself at another.
A conventional paired description of appearing and hiding.
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طُلَعَاءُ
Vomit, or a small quantity of vomit.
A specialized bodily noun; the quantity distinction is reported as a usage variation.
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طَلَاعٌ
The act of making known or informing.
A verbal noun associated with the Form IV causative of making something known.
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طِلَاعٌ
A quantity or size sufficient to fill another thing.
Used of an amount sufficient to fill a vessel, the earth, or a hand.
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طِلَاعٌ
The extent of land or area upon which the sun has risen or shone.
A reported extended interpretation of the expression طِلَاعُ الأَرْضِ.
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طَلُوعٌ
Aspiring to or seeking the means of attaining lofty things or eminence.
A figurative description of ambition.
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طَلِيعَةٌ
A scout or scouting party sent ahead to learn the enemy's condition or news.
A military term for a person or group sent before the main force.
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طَلَّاعُ الثَّنَايَا
A person experienced in affairs and able to surmount difficulties through knowledge, judgment, and experience.
An idiom literally associated with ascending mountain roads; it can also describe aspiration to eminence.
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طَلَّاعٌ
Full, as a drinking vessel filled to capacity or an eye filled with tears.
An extended fullness adjective applied to containers and eyes.
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طَالِعٌ
Rising or appearing from above or from within something.
Used of a star or anything becoming visible by rising or elevation.
- Lane · entry 11590
طَالِعٌ
A star considered auspicious or fortunate.
An astrological or figurative extension of the rising star.
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طَالِعٌ
The false dawn.
A specialized astronomical term for the dawn that appears before the true dawn.
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طَالِعٌ
The new moon or crescent at the beginning of its cycle.
Used in reckoning elapsed months by successive new moons.
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طَالِعٌ
An arrow that falls behind or passes over the target.
An archery term for an arrow overshooting the butt or mark.
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طَالِعَةُ الإِبِلِ
The first or foremost camel in a group.
A specialized expression for the leading camel.
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مَطْلَعٌ
The place of ascent, especially the place where one climbs a mountain or hill.
A place-name extension from rising or climbing.
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مَطْلَعٌ
A place or object immediately present or near at hand.
Used idiomatically to describe something as near as a hill one would ascend for it.
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مَطْلَعٌ
The beginning of an ode or poem.
A literary use for the opening portion of a qaṣīdah.
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مُطْلِعٌ
A palm tree putting forth its spadix.
An active-participial description of a palm at the stage of producing its طَلْع.
- Lane · entry 11593
مُطْلِعَةٌ
A palm tree taller than the surrounding palm trees.
A reported feminine form with a specialized description of relative height.
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مُطَّلَعٌ
A place of ascent or an elevated vantage point from which one looks down toward a lower place.
The noun can denote the place reached by ascending and, figuratively, a point toward which understanding ascends.
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مُطَّلَعٌ
A way or means of attaining or carrying out an affair.
Used in the expression مُطَّلَعُ الأَمْرِ for the means or manner of reaching its performance.
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مُطَّلَعٌ
The elevated station or ordeal from which the hardships of the afterlife are encountered or viewed.
A figurative application to the terror of the resurrection and the grave.
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مُطَّلِعٌ
Strong or powerful.
A reported adjective; some authorities distinguish it from the related form مُضْطَلِعٌ.
- Lane · entry 11595
مُطَّلِعٌ
High or eminent, or one who subdues or overcomes.
An alternative adjectival branch reported for the form.
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مُطَالَعٌ
Manifest, overt, or exposed so that its nature is well known.
Used in a passive-participial expression for something whose character is evident when named.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form VIII Quranic sense in 104:7 is assigned according to the supplied QAC morphology; the Lane discussion presents the associated Quranic expression within a broader root entry rather than under a separately labeled Form VIII paragraph.
The two maṭlaʿ forms are distinguished by the supplied QAC vocalization, while the lexical evidence records variant interpretations of the expression at 97:5.
One Lane unit reports a possible meaning of اِطَّلَعَ as “salvation” but immediately questions it as a transcription error; it is therefore left unresolved rather than treated as an established sense.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:TlE:11577:g3:main: a reported interpretation of اِطَّلَعَ as النَّجَاةُ is explicitly questioned in the same passage as a likely mistranscription, so no public meaning is assigned.