Quranic root
طلل
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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.
- Maqāyīs · row 3044
- Mufradāt · row 909
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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.
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
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.