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Quranic root

طلل

ṭ · l · l

The root develops three principal orientations: moistening and freshness, elevation or looking from above, and rendering something of little account or void.

Light rain moistens and improves the earth; from visible traces and raised bodily form come طَلَلٌ for standing remains and أَطَلَّ for looking down or from above; the notion of diminishing or nullifying extends to blood or rights made to go unrecognized.

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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.

طَلٌّ

ṭallun

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.

  1. Light or drizzling rain; the weakest kind of rain.

    In the Quranic comparison, it is rain whose effect is slight, contrasted with heavy rain (وابل).

    • Mufradāt · row 909
    • Lane · entry 11497
    • Lane · entry 11491
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 2:265word 23

    then a drizzle

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 2:265فَطَلٌّۭ ۗthen a drizzle
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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 40 Classical meanings
  • طَلَّ / طُلَّ / مَطْلُولٌ

    To cause blood or a right to go unrecognized, uncompensated, or void; to withhold, deny, diminish, or annul a due.

    Used of blood made to go without retaliation or compensation and of a person's right or due that is withheld or denied.

    • Lane · entry 11491
    • Lane · entry 11498
    • Lane · entry 11519
  • طَلَّ

    To delay or put off a creditor by repeatedly promising payment later.

    • Lane · entry 11491
  • طَلٌّ

    Rough or rigorous driving, especially of camels.

    • Lane · entry 11491
  • طَلَّ / طَلٌّ

    To be pleasing or goodly; pleasant, good, beautiful, or agreeable when used as an epithet.

    Applied to such things as poetry, discourse, water, a night, or other objects; the examples do not impose a restriction on the object.

    • Lane · entry 11491
    • Lane · entry 11492
    • Lane · entry 11497
  • طَلَّهُ

    To smear or rub a thing with ورس.

    • Lane · entry 11491
  • أَطَلَّ / تَطَالَّ

    To look upon something from above, look down upon it, or obtain a view of it by raising oneself or stretching the neck.

    The Form VI usage can describe stretching the neck or standing on tiptoe to see something distant; the derived forms express the same looking-from-above construction.

    • Lane · entry 11492
    • Lane · entry 11494
  • اِطْتَلَّ

    To draw near or approach, said of time.

    A reported figurative usage.

    • Lane · entry 11492
  • اِطْتَلَّ عَلَى حَقٍّ

    To take possession of a right or due and carry it away.

    A reported figurative construction with عَلَى.

    • Lane · entry 11492
  • اِطْتَلَّ عَلَيْهِ

    To persistently importune, molest, or annoy someone.

    A reported figurative construction, including continual persistence in causing harm or annoyance.

    • Lane · entry 11492
  • تَطَلَّلَتِ الأَرْضُ

    For land to produce herbage, become full or luxuriant, and remain untrodden.

    • Lane · entry 11493
  • اِسْتَطَلَّ الفَرَسُ بِذَنَبِهِ

    For a horse to go along raising its tail toward the sky.

    A specialized equine expression.

    • Lane · entry 11495
  • طَلْطَلَهُ

    To move, agitate, shake, or put someone or something into motion or commotion.

    A reduplicated or quadriliteral usage; moving the arms while walking is given as a related description.

    • Lane · entry 11496
  • طُلٌّ

    Milk; in some expressions, a small or scant quantity of milk.

    Reported especially in expressions concerning a camel, and also in the statement that a house has no milk.

    • Lane · entry 11497
  • طُلٌّ / طُلَّاءٌ

    Blood itself.

    A reported lexical usage distinct from the expression for blood that has been made to go unavenged.

    • Lane · entry 11497
    • Lane · entry 11508
  • طَلٌّ

    Fat or fatness.

    Reported in an expression concerning a she-camel.

    • Lane · entry 11497
  • طَلٌّ / طَلَلٌ

    Moist, fresh, or juicy; anything characterized by moisture.

    Applied to a day, land, a meadow, or other moist or fresh things.

    • Lane · entry 11497
    • Lane · entry 11502
  • طَلَّةٌ

    An aged man; also, an old woman or a woman foul or obscene in speech.

    These are reported person-designations and are not extensions of the ordinary moisture sense.

    • Lane · entry 11497
  • طِلٌّ

    A serpent.

    A rare, explicitly reported usage; its relation to the principal root senses is uncertain.

    • Lane · entry 11497
  • طَلَّةٌ

    A wife.

    Used substantively.

    • Lane · entry 11500
  • طَلَّةٌ

    Daintiness or delicacy in food and clothing.

    • Lane · entry 11500
  • طُلَّةٌ

    The neck.

    • Lane · entry 11501
  • طُلَّةٌ

    A draught of milk.

    • Lane · entry 11501
  • طَلَلٌ

    A portion still standing of the remains of a dwelling or house; in plural usage, raised or elevated remnants of a settlement or its land.

    The term varies with dwelling type: remains of walls and worship places in settled areas, and remains of eating, drinking, or sleeping places among tent-dwellers.

    • Lane · entry 11502
  • طَلَلٌ

    The visible body, bodily form, or person of a thing; especially the erect or visible person of a man.

    Refers to what rises into view or is seen from a distance, not specifically to dwelling remains.

    • Lane · entry 11502
  • طَلَلٌ

    A place in a house’s courtyard or interior prepared for sitting, eating, or drinking, like a built bench.

    • Lane · entry 11502
  • طَلَلٌ

    The deck or covering of a ship or boat, like the roof of a house or chamber.

    • Lane · entry 11502
  • طَلَلُ المَاءِ

    The surface or face of water.

    A reported figurative expression meaning to walk or go upon the surface of water.

    • Lane · entry 11502
  • طَلَلٌ

    Fresh, juicy, or moist; synonymous with طَرِيٌّ.

    • Lane · entry 11502
  • طَلِيلٌ

    Sweet.

    A dialectal usage attributed to Hudhayl.

    • Lane · entry 11503
  • طَلِيلٌ

    A mat, especially one woven from palm or doum-palm leaves or their coverings.

    The lexical item has several reported plural forms.

    • Lane · entry 11503
  • طَلَالَةٌ

    A goodly state or condition, beautiful appearance or mien, and beauty, brightness, or lustre.

    Can describe the visible quality or elevated build of a person or animal, as well as the beauty of speech or appearance.

    • Lane · entry 11504
  • طَلَالَةٌ

    Joy, gladness, or happiness.

    A separately reported meaning of the noun.

    • Lane · entry 11504
  • طُلْطُلٌ

    A chronic or permanent disease.

    • Lane · entry 11509
  • طُلَاطِلَةٌ

    A calamity or misfortune.

    • Lane · entry 11514
  • طُلَاطِلَةٌ

    A wearisome or intractable disease for which there is no remedy; also a disease affecting the belly or the back.

    The back disease is specifically reported in connection with asses.

    • Lane · entry 11514
  • طُلَاطِلَةٌ

    Death.

    • Lane · entry 11514
  • طُلَاطِلَةٌ

    The uvula or a piece of flesh in the throat; in one account, the falling or displacement of the uvula that impedes swallowing.

    • Lane · entry 11514
  • مُطِلٌّ

    Unsettled or not established.

    Used of an affair that is not stable or resolved.

    • Lane · entry 11517
  • مُطَلِّلٌ

    Mist or thin moisture-bearing cloud covering the earth.

    A reported synonymic usage for a mist-like atmospheric covering.

    • Lane · entry 11518
  • مَطْلُولٌ

    Milk with froth or water added, appearing good or pleasant although lacking true goodness; alternatively, a piece of skin soaked and softened with pure milk.

    The source reports alternative interpretations of the expression.

    • Lane · entry 11519

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The serpent meaning is explicitly reported as anomalous and uncertain in the root-level comparison, but it is retained because the lexical entry directly attests it.

  • Several rare meanings are reported with variant vocalizations or alternative interpretations; those alternatives are stated in the relevant usage conditions rather than treated as Quranic senses.