Quranic root
دخل
d · kh · l
The root centers on entering, penetrating, or passing within.
From physical entry, the lexicon develops senses of insertion, intermixture, inwardness, intrusion, and a hidden defect or foreign element.
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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.
دَخَلَ
dakhala
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 76 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 enter, go into, or come within a place or space.
The ordinary intransitive sense; the destination may be expressed directly or through a preposition, and the verb may describe entering a physical place or realm.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:68word 2
“they entered”
To enter into, join, or become included in a community, religion, affair, or state.
Used of coming within a social, religious, practical, or otherwise defined domain, including becoming part of a group or undertaking.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 49:14word 11
“entered”
To go in to a woman sexually; to have sexual intercourse.
A conventional euphemistic construction, especially دَخَلَ بِـ or دَخَلَ عَلَى, whose meaning is determined by the marital or sexual context.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:23word 27
“you had relations”
أَدْخَلَ
ʾadkhala
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 42 occurrences
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To cause someone or something to enter; to bring, put, introduce, or admit within.
The causative counterpart of Form I, used transitively for bringing a person or thing into a place, state, or domain; passive occurrences mean “be admitted” or “be made to enter.”
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:13word 8
“He will admit him”
Quran 17:80word 3
“Cause me to enter”
دَاخِلٌ
dākhilun
- Part of speech
- Active 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.
Entering; one who enters.
An active participle used substantivally for entrants or those who enter a place or domain.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:22word 17
“enter (it)”
Quran 66:10word 27
“those who enter”
دَخَلٌ
dakhalun
- Part of speech
- 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.
Deceit, guile, or circumvention used covertly between people.
In the Quranic construction concerning oaths, it denotes using them as a concealed means of deception or bad faith between parties.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:92word 12
“(as) a deception”
Quran 16:94word 4
“(as) a deception”
مُدَّخَلٌ
muddakhalun
- Part of speech
- Noun · place of entry
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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A place into which one may enter; an entrance or refuge.
A lexicalized place noun in the Quranic reading of 9:57, describing a possible place of concealment or entry.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:57word 7
“a place to enter”
مُدْخَلٌ
mudkhalun
- Part of speech
- Noun · entrance or entry
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
An entrance, entry, or admission into a place or condition.
A noun associated with entering or causing entry; Quranic usage includes an honorable or agreeable entry and an entrance into a desired destination. The form has recognized reading variation in some occurrences.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:31word 11
“(to) an entrance”
Quran 17:80word 4
“an entrance”
Quran 22:59word 2
“(to) an entrance”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:58ٱدْخُلُوا۟Enter
- 2:58وَٱدْخُلُوا۟and enter
- 2:111يَدْخُلَwill enter
- 2:114يَدْخُلُوهَآthey enter them
- 2:208ٱدْخُلُوا۟Enter
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 66 Classical meanings
دَخْلٌ
Income, revenue, or profit that comes in or accrues.
Used of returns from property, land, houses, palms, or merchandise; contrasted with expenditure or outgoings.
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دَخَلَ
For parts or things to enter into one another and become intermixed.
A construction describing mutual interpenetration, such as stars or other things becoming confused together.
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دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ
To come upon, overtake, or invade someone or something.
Used especially of night or another circumstance coming upon a person; the same unit also records grammatical preposing uses that are not separate lexical meanings.
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دَخَلَنِي
For a suspicion, adverse impression, or evil opinion to enter the mind.
A figurative inward-entry construction expressing the onset of doubt or distrust.
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دُخِلَ، دَخِلَ
To be intrinsically unsound, corrupt, or defective.
Applied to the intellect, body, grounds for respect, or an affair or state.
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دُخِلَ
To be eaten or damaged by worms or similar pests.
Used of grain or food that has become infested.
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دُخِلَ عَلَيْهِ
To be led unknowingly into a mistake or error concerning something.
The error results from a preconceived idea or mistaken assumption.
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دَخَّلَ
To put dates into a palm-leaf receptacle.
A specialized Form II usage concerning the preparation of dates.
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دَاخَلَ
To enter with another into a place or affair; to associate or mix closely with people.
May describe involvement in another’s affairs, familiar social intercourse, conversation, or intimacy.
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دَاخَلَهُ فَسَادٌ
For an unsoundness or corruption to permeate and mingle with someone’s intellect or body.
A figurative Form III construction likening corruption to something entering into and commingling with its object.
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أَدْخَلَ عَلَى قَوْمِهِ
To bring an evil charge against people or burden them with an objectionable accusation.
A figurative causative use in which an injurious allegation is brought upon a group.
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تَدَاخَلَ
To intermix, intermingle, or become confused; for parts to enter into one another.
Also used of compactness or contraction, interlocking joints, mixed dialects, and confused affairs.
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تَدَاخَلَنِي
For something to creep into the mind and produce distress or disquietude.
A figurative transitive construction describing an emotion or concern arising from an affair.
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إِدَّخَلَ
To encroach upon or press in on someone.
A rare, tentatively attested Form VIII usage.
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اِسْتَدْخَلَ
To wish, desire, request, or ask to enter.
A Form X desiderative or seeking construction.
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اِسْتَدْخَلَ
To enter a covert or concealed place while lying in wait.
Used of a person hiding in a thicket or other cover in order to shoot or cast at game.
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دَخَلٌ
A defect, disease, corruption, or unsoundness; something that compromises soundness or reputation.
Applied to intellect, body, lineage or claims to respect, and affairs; the sense may extend to a blemish or a thing arousing suspicion.
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دُخْلٌ
A species of millet.
A plant-name, synonymous with جَاوَرْسٌ and also recorded with another vocalization.
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دَخَلٌ
An intrusive element that enters into something without belonging to it.
The expression can describe something foreign or adventitious within a thing or arrangement.
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دَخَلٌ
Internal rottenness in a palm tree.
A specialized agricultural usage describing decay within the tree.
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دَخَلٌ
Leanness or emaciation.
A bodily condition associated lexically with something having been entered or affected internally.
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دَخَلٌ
People who claim relationship to a group without belonging to it.
A collective or quasi-plural designation for persons falsely asserting lineage or affiliation.
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دَخَلٌ
Tangled, luxuriant, dense trees or growth.
Applied to vegetation whose abundance and interweaving make it dense.
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دَخْلَةٌ
A place in which bees deposit their honey.
A specialized place noun referring to a bees’ honey-depositing site.
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دُخْلَةٌ
The night or ceremony of conducting a bride to her husband.
A conventional social term connected with the consummation of marriage.
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دُخْلَةٌ
A person’s inward or intrinsic state, intentions, conduct, circumstances, mind, or secret.
Used of the inner reality of an affair or person, including the whole underlying state of a matter.
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دِخْلَةٌ
A mixture of colours within a colour.
A specialized descriptive term for coloration containing another colour.
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دُخْلُلٌ
A close companion, confidant, or intimate who enters into another’s affairs.
May denote a special friend, trusted associate, or person admitted into the private affairs of another.
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دُخْلُلُونَ
Persons who enter among a people without belonging to them.
A contrasting use for lower-status outsiders or intruders among a group.
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دُخْلُلٌ
An earwig or a certain worm.
A zoological designation with variant identifications in the lexical tradition.
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دِخْلِلٌ
A portion of flesh or fat situated within other flesh.
A specialized anatomical term for flesh embedded in or surrounded by flesh.
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دِخَالٌ
A practice of putting a camel that has drunk among camels that have not, or returning camels to water for further drinking.
A technical term in watering camels, with several recorded procedural variations.
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دِخَالٌ
The forelocks of a horse, regarded as entering or interlacing with one another.
A specialized equine term based on the interlocking appearance of the hair.
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دَخِيلٌ
A guest, especially one placed under a person’s protection.
The protective or hospitable sense is conventional in expressions of seeking refuge or patronage.
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دَخِيلٌ
A stranger or adventive resident living among people to whom he is not related.
Applied to a person who has entered or remains within a group without belonging to it; it may also be applied to a female.
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دَخِيلٌ
A subject introduced into a discourse by digression or related association rather than belonging to its proper subject matter.
A technical figurative use for an adventitious topic.
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دَخِيلٌ
A word introduced into Arabic that is not indigenous to the language.
A linguistic term for an adventitious or borrowed word.
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دَخِيلٌ
A horse inserted between two other horses in a race for a wager.
A specialized racing term for an intervening horse.
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دَخِيلِيٌّ
An animal brought up and fed in or near a house or tent.
Especially a gazelle or similar animal reared domestically and treated as a household animal.
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دَخِيلِيٌّ
A horse fed exclusively on fodder, or a horse belonging to a specified racing class.
A specialized equine usage with more than one recorded application.
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دُخَيْلِيَآءُ
A certain traditional game of the Arabs.
A culture-specific lexical item.
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دُخَّلٌ
Herbage growing among the stems or branches of trees in a tangled state.
The growth is difficult or impossible to graze because it is inserted among the trees.
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دُخَّلٌ
Feathers inserted between the outer and inner layers of a bird’s plumage.
These interstitial feathers are described as especially good because they are protected from the sun.
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دُخَّلٌ
Flesh or muscle lying within sinews, intermixed with other flesh, or cleaving to bone.
A specialized anatomical term for compact or interwoven flesh.
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دُخَّلٌ
A person compact or contracted in body.
A descriptive bodily epithet explained as having one portion of the body inserted into another.
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دُخَّلٌ
A small bird that enters or lives among dense trees, caves, houses, or tents.
A zoological term with descriptions of its size, colouring, habitat, and seasonal behaviour.
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دَخَّالٌ
One who enters frequently or habitually.
An intensive active-participial description of repeated entry.
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دَاخِلٌ
An earwig or similar small creature that enters the ear.
A substantival use of the active participle in a zoological expression.
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دَاخِلٌ
Internal or inward; lying within.
Used adjectivally of a disease, love, or another inward quality.
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دَاخِلٌ
The interior or inside of something.
A substantive noun opposed to the exterior; it is normally used with a preposition when expressing location.
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دَاخِلَةُ الإِزَارِ
The inner part or extremity of a waist-wrapper next to the body; by extension, the bodily region beneath it.
A specialized clothing and anatomical expression with variant explanations in the lexicon.
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دَاخِلَةُ الأَرْضِ
A low or depressed part of the ground serving as a covert.
A place-name for a hollow or concealed area, especially one useful for hiding.
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دَاخِلَةٌ
Bad pieces of money concealed or mixed among good pieces.
A commercial figurative use for defective items inserted among sound ones.
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دَوْخَلَّةٌ
A woven palm-leaf container in which fresh or ripe dates are placed.
A receptacle term with variant forms and plurals.
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مَدْخَلٌ
An entrance, ingress, or place of entry.
A place noun for the access point of a house or other location; related figurative uses are recorded separately.
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مَدْخَلٌ
A way of acting or a means of attaining or doing something.
A figurative extension of an entrance as a route or means, including a means of attaining good.
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مَدْخَلٌ
A time of entrance.
A less common temporal use of the place-or-time noun.
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مُدْخَلٌ
Base-born, ignoble, or of suspected or adopted lineage.
A figurative specialization connected with being introduced among people to whom one is not related or claiming a false father.
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مِدْخَلٌ
An instrument by which one enters, such as a key.
A technical instrumental noun reported in the philosophical and medical lexicographic tradition.
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مَدْخُولٌ بِهَا
A wife or woman with whom a man has had intercourse.
A passive-participial euphemism for the woman to whom a man has gone in, whether lawfully or unlawfully in the broad lexical explanation.
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مَدْخُولٌ
Unsound in intellect, body, or grounds for respect.
A passive-participial description of someone internally affected by a defect.
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مَدْخُولٌ
Emaciated or lean.
A bodily specialization of the passive participle.
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مَدْخُولٌ
Eaten or damaged by worms or similar pests.
Applied to grain or food that has been internally affected.
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نَخْلَةٌ مَدْخُولَةٌ
A palm tree rotten within.
A specialized agricultural collocation describing internal decay.
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مُدَاخِلَةٌ
Compact, firm, or strongly interlocked in bodily make.
Applied to a she-camel or a man whose bodily parts are closely integrated.
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مُتَدَخَّلٌ فِي أُمُورٍ
One who intrudes into affairs or puts himself to trouble to enter into them.
A participial description of meddling or intrusive involvement in matters belonging to others.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic noun دَخَلٌ is restricted here to its explicitly attested sense of covert deceit; other defect, corruption, and foreign-element senses remain Classical Arabic meanings.
The Form I sexual sense is construction-specific and should not be inferred from ordinary physical-entry occurrences.
Some rare zoological, agricultural, and technical senses are attributed or variant in the lexical evidence but are retained because they state genuine lexical uses.