Quranic root
بقل
b · q · l
The root centers on low-growing, tender vegetation or herbs rather than enduring trees and shrubs.
From the plant category, the lexical field extends to sprouting and emergence, land becoming green or producing vegetation, and the gathering, tending, or grazing of herbs.
- Maqāyīs · row 815
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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.
بَقْل
baql
- 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.
Tender plants or herbs whose root and branch do not persist through winter; low-growing vegetation rather than enduring trees or shrubs.
In بَقْلِهَا, the word is used collectively for the herbs or tender plants of the land.
- Lane · entry 36897
- Mufradāt · row 147
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:61word 18
“its herbs”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:61بَقْلِهَاits herbs
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 24 Classical meanings
بَقَلَ
Of a boy's face, to put forth its beard or hair.
A figurative or transferred use describing the emergence of facial hair.
- Lane · entry 36892
بَقَلَ
Of a camel's tush, to cut or come forth.
Used specifically of the emergence of a camel's tooth.
- Lane · entry 36892
بَقَلَ
To appear or become manifest.
A broader transferred use derived from the emergence of vegetation.
- Lane · entry 36892
بَقَلَ
To collect herbs for a camel.
Used with herbs gathered as camel fodder.
- Lane · entry 36892
بَقَلَ
To cut or mow herbs.
The construction بَقَلَ البَقْلَ denotes cutting the plants or herbage.
- Lane · entry 36892
- Mufradāt · row 147
بَقَّلَ
To leave camels to pasture on herbs.
A causative or transitive pastoral use.
- Lane · entry 36893
بَقَّلَ
To tend or care well for a beast.
A transferred use equated with caring for or managing an animal properly.
- Lane · entry 36893
أَبْقَلَ
Of land or a place, to produce herbs or vegetation; of shrubs or trees, to become green or put forth early shoots.
The subject may be land, a place, the ramth shrub, or trees; the use covers the appearance of green growth.
- Lane · entry 36894
أَبْقَلَ
For people or a company, to find herbs or herbage.
Used of people encountering a place where herbs are present.
- Lane · entry 36894
أَبْقَلَ
To make a boy's face put forth hair or a beard.
A causative use applied to the growth of facial hair.
- Lane · entry 36894
تَبَقَّلَ
To go forth seeking herbs.
The Form V verb describes setting out in search of plants or herbage.
- Lane · entry 36895
ابْتَقَلَ
Of an ass, livestock, or camels, to pasture on herbs and thereby become fat.
Used of animals feeding on بَقْل, with fattening presented as the resulting condition.
- Lane · entry 36896
ابْتَقَلَ
For people to have their cattle pasture on herbs, or to pasture their cattle on them.
A construction in which people are associated with putting or keeping livestock at herb pasture.
- Lane · entry 36896
بَقْل
Green, immature crop or produce.
In the expression بَاعَ الزَّرْعَ وَهُوَ بَقْلٌ, the crop is sold while still green and unripe.
- Lane · entry 36897
بَقْلَة
In compounds naming particular plants, a specified herb such as purslane, endive, cabbage, celandine, fumitory, ivy or lablab, orache, sow-thistle, blite, balmgentle, or another regional herb.
These are lexicalized plant names; one recorded compound denotes a medicinal herb used for abdominal pains.
- Lane · entry 36897
بَقِل
An epithet for land or a place that produces, contains, or is rich in herbs.
Related forms such as بَقِيلَةٌ describe herb-producing land or a place of herbage.
- Lane · entry 36898
بُقْلَة
The herbs or plants produced in spring.
This headword refers to spring growth as a class of plants.
- Lane · entry 36899
بُقُولِيّ
Relating to herbs or plants of the بَقْل class.
A relational adjective derived from the plural بُقُولٌ.
- Lane · entry 36901
بَقَّال
A seller of herbs or vegetables; by extension, a shopkeeper, grocer, or seller of dry provisions.
The primary designation is a green-grocer; broader commercial uses are extensions of it.
- Lane · entry 36902
بَاقِل
Green or newly emerging growth on a shrub or tree, especially the early shoots of the ramth.
Used as an epithet for the ramth when it greens or puts forth shoots, and for similar early growth appearing on trees.
- Lane · entry 36903
بَاقِلَّى / بَاقِلَاء
A bean or bean plant and its grain, especially the faba bean.
The term is recorded as a regional name in Iraq; an Egyptian plant designation is reported, but its exact botanical identification is uncertain.
- Lane · entry 36904
بَاقِلِّيّ / بَاقِلَائِيّ
Relating to beans or to the plant called بَاقِلَّى or بَاقِلَاء.
A relational adjective formed from the bean names.
- Lane · entry 36905
بَاقُول
A mug or cup without a handle.
The form بُوقَالٌ is also recorded for this vessel.
- Lane · entry 36906
بُوقَالَة
A drinking vessel resembling a bowl or cup.
A vessel comparable to a طَاس or كَأْس.
- Lane · entry 36908
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Egyptian botanical identification recorded under بَاقِلَّى / بَاقِلَاء is explicitly uncertain and is retained as a regional usage without resolving its species.