غلق

غَلَقَ

To go away, or go far into the land.

A Form I usage, with the cited expressions غَلَقَ and غَلَقَ فِي الأَرْضِ.

• Lane · entry 29754

غَلِقَ

Of a door, to become locked, bolted, closed, or shut.

A Form I door-state usage, distinguished from the causative act of closing.

• Lane · entry 29754

غَلِقَ

Of a pledge, to become a forfeit or remain in the receiver’s possession when it is not redeemed.

A legal pledge construction; the pledge remains with the creditor because the stipulated redemption has not occurred.

• Lane · entry 29754

غَلِقَتْ رَقَبَتُهُ بِالدَّيْنِ

Of a person, especially an indebted slave, to become forfeit to a creditor because of debt.

A conventional legal expression in which the person is treated as having become bound to the debt.

• Lane · entry 29754

غَلِقَ

Of a captive or criminal, to remain unransomed or unredeemed.

A passive-result use describing someone who has not been released or ransomed.

• Lane · entry 29754

غَلِقَ

To stick fast in something, cleave to it, or become fixed in a state or course.

Used literally or figuratively, including being fixed in falsehood, poverty, anger, or an attachment.

• Lane · entry 29754

غَلِقَ / غَلَقٌ

To become disquieted by grief or anger; associated noun uses denote inward constriction, little patience, straitness, or perdition.

The expression يَمِينُ الغَلَقِ denotes an oath of anger; the noun may describe a constricted or distressed state.

• Lane · entry 29754

غَلِقَتِ النَّخْلَةُ

Of a palm tree, to be stopped from bearing fruit because worms affect the bases of its branches.

A specialized agricultural use describing impeded fruit production.

• Lane · entry 29754

غَلِقَ ظَهْرُ البَعِيرِ

Of a camel’s back, to become incurably galled by sores or chafing.

A specialized animal-husbandry expression for severe, persistent back-galls.

• Lane · entry 29754

مُغَالَقَةٌ

Contending for a bet or wager.

A Form III verbal noun, especially associated with racing or the game of maysir.

• Lane · entry 29756

أَغْلَقَ / إِغْلَاقٌ

To constrain someone or leave an affair too strait for free action.

Used of compulsion or a situation in which the agent is unable to advance or withdraw, as though a door were locked against him.

• Lane · entry 29757

أَغْلَقَ الرَّهْنَ

To make or declare a pledge due as a forfeit to its receiver.

A causative legal construction concerning the transfer of a pledge to the creditor upon failure of redemption.

• Lane · entry 29757

أَغْلَقَ القَاتِلَ

To deliver or surrender a killer to the slain person’s heir or next of kin for judgment or punishment.

Also used of someone being surrendered to punishment for a crime.

• Lane · entry 29757

أُغْلِقَ فُلَانٌ

To be angered.

A passive Form IV expression describing a person as having been brought into anger.

• Lane · entry 29757

إِغْلَاقُ ظَهْرِ البَعِيرِ

The galling or disabling of a camel’s back by heavy loads.

A specialized use, also extended figuratively to sins that heavily burden a person.

• Lane · entry 29757

تَغَالَقُوا

They contended with one another for bets or wagers.

A reciprocal Form VI use associated with wagering.

• Lane · entry 29758

اِنْغَلَقَ

Of a door, to become locked, bolted, closed, shut, or difficult to open.

The intransitive counterpart of opening; it describes the door’s resulting inaccessible state.

• Lane · entry 29759

اِسْتَغْلَقَتْ رَحِمُ النَّاقَةِ

Of a she-camel’s womb, to become closed so that it does not admit seminal fluid.

A specialized anatomical construction.

• Lane · entry 29760

اِسْتَغْلَقَ عَلَيْهِ الكَلَامُ

For speech to become closed against someone, leaving him tongue-tied or unable to speak.

The construction describes difficulty in producing speech, especially when the speaker is required to respond under pressure.

• Lane · entry 29760

اِسْتَغْلَقَ الأَمْرُ

For an affair to become difficult, intractable, or hard to resolve.

A figurative Form X use equivalent to an affair becoming severely impeded.

• Lane · entry 29760

اِسْتَغْلَقَ الخَبَرُ

For a report or piece of information to become obscure or unintelligible.

A conventional figurative use for information that cannot readily be understood.

• Lane · entry 29760

اِسْتَغْلَقَنِي فِي بَيْعِي

To make someone’s sale binding so that he has no option to revoke or return from it.

A commercial construction concerning the loss of the option to rescind a sale.

• Lane · entry 29760

غَلْقٌ

An epithet for an old, lean, meagre, or emaciated man or camel; also, in another usage, red.

The color sense may apply to a man, a water or milk skin, or leather.

• Lane · entry 29761

غَلْقٌ

Of a hide or skin, to be vitiated or rendered unsound in tanning.

A technical tanning use distinct from the general noun for a lock or closure.

• Lane · entry 29761

مَالٌ غِلْقٌ

Property that is unlawful or inaccessible.

Used in contrast with freely available lawful property.

• Lane · entry 29762

غَلَقٌ

A lock: an instrument that fastens a door and cannot be opened without a key.

Also used for locks generally, with the cited plural أَغْلَاقٌ and related plural forms.

• Lane · entry 29763

غَلَقٌ

A great or imposing door.

A separate nominal use, including the expression for the keys of its doors.

• Lane · entry 29763

غَلِقٌ / غُلُقٌ

Locked, bolted, closed, or shut.

An adjectival or participial description of a door or other thing in a closed state; غُلُقٌ is reported as a variant.

• Lane · entry 29764
• Lane · entry 29765

غَلِقٌ

A pledge that has become a forfeit to its receiver because it was not redeemed.

A specialized legal adjectival use.

• Lane · entry 29764

غَلِقٌ

A captive or criminal who remains unransomed or unredeemed.

A figurative result-state use.

• Lane · entry 29764

غَلِقٌ

A narrow or strait place.

A figurative extension of closure and restricted passage.

• Lane · entry 29764

غَلِقٌ

A person evil or narrow in disposition, often angry and difficult to please.

An adjectival characterization of temperament, not merely a temporary act of anger.

• Lane · entry 29764

غَلِقٌ

Speech or language that is difficult to understand, dubious, or confused.

A figurative adjectival use for unclear expression.

• Lane · entry 29764

نَخْلَةٌ غَلِقَةٌ

A palm tree stopped from bearing fruit by worms affecting the bases of its branches.

A specialized agricultural adjective.

• Lane · entry 29764

غَلِقٌ

Of a camel’s back, having incurable galls.

A specialized animal-husbandry adjective.

• Lane · entry 29764

غَلْقَةٌ

A bitter tree or plant used in tanning hides and, in reported practices, as a poison.

The plant is described as intensely bitter; its preparation is associated with hide treatment and poisoning weapons or animals.

• Lane · entry 29766
• Mufradāt · row 1065

غَلَاقٌ

The state of being surrendered or delivered for punishment.

A noun derived from the expression for surrendering a person for his crime or bloodshed.

• Lane · entry 29769

إِغْلِيقٌ

A key.

A less common form, with أَغَالِيقُ reported as its plural.

• Lane · entry 29770

مِغْلَقٌ

An arrow used in the game of maysir, especially an arrow associated with winning or taking the stake.

The exact designation within the maysir arrow system is reported with variant scholarly explanations.

• Lane · entry 29772

مِغْلَاقٌ

A latch or implement attached behind a door to close or fasten it.

A closure fitting distinct from the general noun for a lock.

• Lane · entry 29773

مِغْلَاقٌ

A person through whom a pledge is made a forfeit; in maysir, one through whom winning arrows are withheld from the other players; figuratively, one who closes an opponent’s argument.

These uses describe an agent who brings a matter to closure or removes another party’s remaining option.

• Lane · entry 29773

مَغْلُوقٌ

A hide in which the غَلْقَة plant is placed during tanning, or a hide tanned with that plant.

A specialized tanning term.

• Lane · entry 29774