Quranic root
طلق
ṭ · l · q
The root centers on loosening, releasing, and sending forth after a bond or restriction is removed.
From release and unbinding develop the meanings of departure, unrestrictedness, lawful freedom, generosity, fluent speech, openness of face, and the release of a marriage bond.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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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.
طَلَّقَ
ṭallaqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- Quran occurrences
- 10 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 divorce; to release a wife from the marriage bond.
Used transitively of ending or dissolving the marital relationship, including the Quranic legal constructions concerning repeated divorce, waiting periods, and subsequent separation.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:230word 2
“he divorces her”
Quran 65:1word 6
“then divorce them”
اِنْطَلَقَ
āinṭalaqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VII
- Form
- VII
- Quran occurrences
- 9 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 go forth, depart, or proceed away.
Used of persons or groups setting out or being sent onward; the Quranic imperative may direct movement toward a destination or punishment.
- Lane · entry 11606
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:71word 1
“So they both set out”
Quran 77:29word 1
“Proceed”
For the tongue to move freely in speech; to speak fluently or eloquently.
A conventional use with the tongue, describing freedom from impediment rather than physical departure.
- Lane · entry 11606
Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:13word 4
“expresses well”
طَلَاقٌ
ṭalāqun
- 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.
Divorce; the releasing or separation of a wife from the marriage bond.
Names the act or legal state of divorce, including the dissolution of the marriage tie and the wife's release from it.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:227word 3
“(on) [the] divorce”
Quran 2:229word 1
“The divorce”
مُطَلَّقَةٌ
muṭallaqahun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- 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.
A divorced woman; a woman released from the marriage bond.
The Quranic form occurs as a feminine plural referring to women who have been divorced.
- Lane · entry 11603
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:228word 1
“And the women who are divorced”
Quran 2:241word 1
“And for the divorced women”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:227ٱلطَّلَـٰقَ(on) [the] divorce
- 2:228وَٱلْمُطَلَّقَـٰتُAnd the women who are divorced
- 2:229ٱلطَّلَـٰقُThe divorce
- 2:230طَلَّقَهَاhe divorces her
- 2:230طَلَّقَهَاhe divorces her
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 53 Classical meanings
طَلَقَ
To become unbound or released; of a camel, to be loosed from its tether and go toward water.
Used especially of a she-camel or camels released from their bonds and left to travel and pasture.
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طَلَقَتْ
To become divorced or separated from one's husband.
Form I usage said of a woman who is released from the marriage relationship.
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طَلُقَ
To become fluent, eloquent, and pleasant in speech.
Used of the tongue; a figurative development from freedom of movement.
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طَلُقَ
To become cheerful, bright, or open in countenance.
Used of a person or the face.
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طَلُقَ
To become mild and pleasant, neither harshly hot nor cold.
Used of a day or night, especially one free from severe cold, wind, or rain.
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طَلِقَ
To become distant or remote.
A distinct Form I vocalization and usage.
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طُلِقَتْ
To be seized by the pains of childbirth.
A passive Form I expression, also used of a woman being in labor with a child.
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طَلَّقَ
To let go, release, or leave something free.
Used of releasing an animal or otherwise letting a thing go; distinct from the specialized marital use.
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طَلَّقَ
To leave, quit, or abandon a place, people, or household.
A broader Form II extension of letting go, not restricted to divorce.
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طُلِّقَ
To be relieved of the pain of venom and recover after its paroxysm.
Used of a person bitten by a serpent when the pain subsides.
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أَطْلَقَ
To release, set free, or let go.
Used of untying an animal, freeing a captive, or releasing horses to run; also of sending camels toward water.
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أَطْلَقَ
To loosen or move the bowels.
Used of medicine that relaxes or moves the belly.
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أَطْلَقَ
To make someone or an animal hasten or quicken its pace.
Used with a rein, foot, or similar means of urging forward.
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أَطْلَقَ
To open one's hand freely in generosity; to give property or a thing.
Used with the hand or with giving, and extended to remitting part of a debt.
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أَطْلَقَ
To permit or authorize an act; to give leave.
The construction أَطْلَقَ لَهُ is used in the sense of granting permission.
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أَطْلَقَ
To make unrestricted or unconditional; to use an expression without qualification.
A conventional technical use applied to statements, words, names, and evidence that are left without a limiting specification.
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أَطْلَقَ
In horse terminology, to be free from a specified white marking on the legs.
A specialized equestrian use of الإطلاق in descriptions of a horse's legs.
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أَطْلَقَ
To dose an enemy with poison.
A specialized transitive idiom.
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أَطْلَقَ
To fertilize palm trees.
Used of tall palm trees in a specialized agricultural expression.
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تَطَلَّقَ
To run briskly and continuously without pausing or restraint.
Used of a gazelle or horses running freely toward a goal.
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تَطَلَّقَ
Of a horse, to urinate after running.
A specialized equestrian idiom.
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اِطَّلَقَ
For the mind to become free from constriction or difficulty.
Used in the expression مَا تَطَّلِقُ نَفْسِي لِهَذَا الأَمْرِ, meaning that the mind does not open to or feel at ease with an affair.
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اِسْتَطْلَقَ
To seek or desire that a person or thing be released or set free.
The transitive use may express seeking release, unbinding, or remission.
- Lane · entry 11608
اِسْتَطْلَقَ
For the belly or bowels to become loose and discharge their contents.
A bodily use of the intransitive Form X verb.
- Lane · entry 11608
اِسْتَطْلَقَ
To reserve or retain a she-camel for oneself, leaving her unmilked at the watering place.
A pastoral idiom describing a herder's keeping a camel for personal use.
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اِسْتَطْلَقَ
To seek or demand remission of part of a debt.
Used of a request made to the creditor for release from an amount owed.
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طَلْقٌ
Unbound, free, or released from a bond.
Can describe a person imprisoned without shackles or an animal not tied or restrained.
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طَلْقُ اللِّسَانِ
Eloquent and fluent in speech; free from impediment of the tongue.
A conventional description of a tongue or speaker.
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طَلْقُ اليَدَيْنِ
Liberal, bountiful, or generous.
Applied to a person, including a woman, and figuratively to an open hand.
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طَلْقُ الوَجْهِ
Cheerful, bright, open, and pleasant in countenance.
Used of a face or person who is not frowning or contracted.
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يَوْمٌ طَلْقٌ
A mild, calm, and pleasant day or night.
May describe weather without severe heat, cold, wind, or rain, and sometimes a bright or moonlit night.
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طَلْقٌ
The pain of childbirth.
A noun used of labor pains.
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طَلْقٌ
A kind of medicine.
A rare lexical use recorded without a more specific identification in the supplied evidence.
- Lane · entry 11609
طِلْقٌ
Lawful, allowable, unrestricted, or free of liability.
Used of something available for disposal or action without a prohibition, claim, or responsibility attaching to it.
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طَلَقٌ
The stage or journey of camels released toward distant water.
A pastoral term for the first or intervening night or day of the camels' journey; the exact assignment of first versus second stage varies in the cited discussion.
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طَلَقٌ
A single uninterrupted run or heat to a goal.
Used especially of a horse's run and its maximum running distance.
- Lane · entry 11612
طَلَقٌ
A share or portion of property.
A figurative or specialized nominal use.
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طَلَقٌ
A shackle or pair of shackles, or a strongly twisted rope.
A concrete noun referring to a restraint or rope-like object.
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طَلَقُ البَطْنِ
The intestinal lines or passages of the belly.
A dialectal anatomical term, with أَطْلَاقٌ as its plural in the cited usage.
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طَلَقٌ
A mineral or talc-like substance used in medicine, dyes, or heat-resistant panes.
The evidence records uncertainty over whether some references denote a plant, dye substance, or the mineral talc.
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طُلُقٌ
Unshackled or unrestrained.
Applied to camels and to an imprisoned person; the plural is أَطْلَاقٌ.
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طُلُقُ القَوَائِمِ
Having a specified leg or legs free from the white marking called تَحْجِيل.
A specialized description of a horse's legs.
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طُلُقٌ
A gazelle noted for the quickness of its running.
A substantivized epithet derived from being let loose or running swiftly.
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طُلُقٌ
A hunting dog.
So called either because it is let loose or because of its speed in the chase.
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طَلْقَةٌ
A single divorce.
A legal and technical nominal use.
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طَلِيقٌ
A captive whose bond has been released; a person freed from slavery.
Also used in a historical expression for people brought within Islam against their will.
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طَلِيقُ الإِلَهِ
The wind.
A specialized figurative expression.
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طَالِقٌ
A camel or ewe released to pasture where it will, or a she-camel retained by the herder and not milked at the watering place.
A pastoral term with several closely related practices of leaving an animal free or setting it aside.
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طَالِقٌ
A woman divorced or separated from her husband.
A Form I active-participial expression; the feminine form طَالِقَةٌ is also attested in the cited poetic usage.
- Lane · entry 11622
مُطْلَقٌ
Unrestricted, absolute, or without exception.
Used of water, a judgment, rule, or other matter left without a limiting qualification.
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مُطَلِّقٌ
One seeking to outstrip others with a horse in a race.
A specialized equestrian active participle.
- Lane · entry 11626
مِطْلَاقٌ
One who frequently divorces or dismisses wives.
An intensive nominal designation for repeated divorce.
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مَطْلُوقَةٌ
A woman in the pains of childbirth.
A specialized passive-participial expression.
- Lane · entry 11629
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The plural Quranic form مُطَلَّقَات is presented under the singular passive-participial citation form مُطَلَّقَةٌ.
The Quranic Form VII tongue usage is a conventional figurative construction distinct from physical departure.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
lane-unit:Tlq:11625:g2:main contains a tentative report that مُطْلَقٌ may denote a place where horses are sent to race, but the passage itself suggests a possible misreading as مُطَلَّقٌ; it is therefore left unassigned.