Quranic root
لحق
l · ḥ · q
A root centered on reaching, catching up with, and arriving at another; it also extends to joining, attaching, and associating.
The basic idea of attaining and reaching develops into following or overtaking, causing someone or something to join another, and broader senses of adherence and adjunction.
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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.
لَحِقَ
laḥiqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To catch up with, reach, or join another person or group.
Used for attaining or coming up with others; the Quranic occurrences describe people who have or have not yet joined another group.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:170word 10
“yet joined”
Quran 62:3word 4
“joined”
أَلْحَقَ
ʾalḥaqa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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 cause someone or something to reach, join, or follow another.
A causative construction used when a person or group is brought into connection with another person, group, or destination.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:101word 20
“and join me”
Quran 52:21word 6
“We will join”
To attach or associate one thing with another, classing it with or treating it as comparable to the other.
Used with بِـ for making something an adjunct, associate, or putative equal of another; in the Quran it occurs in the association of partners with God.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 34:27word 4
“you have joined”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:170يَلْحَقُوا۟yet joined
- 12:101وَأَلْحِقْنِىand join me
- 26:83وَأَلْحِقْنِىand join me
- 34:27أَلْحَقْتُمyou have joined
- 52:21أَلْحَقْنَاWe will join
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 14 Classical meanings
لَحِقَ
To overtake or befall someone, especially of grief or another event; to ensue for him.
A use in which an event or affliction is the subject and its effect comes upon a person.
- Lane · entry 20562
لَحِقَ بِهِ
To become, or make oneself, on a par with another.
A comparative or parity construction describing equal standing or apparent equality.
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لَحِقَ
To become adjoined or annexed to something.
Used for attachment or incorporation into another thing, apart from the Quranic personal or group-joining construction.
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لَحِقَ
To be firmly compacted, coherent, or knit together, with parts inserted into one another.
Describes the physical cohesion or interlocking of several parts.
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لَحِقَهُ الثَّمَنُ
For the price or payment to become obligatory upon someone.
A conventional expression concerning the incurring of liability for a price.
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أَلْحَقَ
To cause a punishment or affliction to overtake or befall someone.
Used of making an imposed punishment reach the person upon whom it falls.
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أَلْحَقَ
To cause someone to reach a place; to remove or transfer him to it.
A causative reaching construction whose destination is a place rather than another person or group.
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أَلْحَقَهُ بِهِ
To affiliate someone to another as a son, or attach him to that person as a claimed relation.
The reported affiliation is associated with mutual likeness and may concern a claimed or attached son.
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لُحُوقٌ
Adherence or sticking closely.
A nominal use equated with remaining attached or clinging.
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لَاحِقُ الآطَالِ
Lean or lank in the sides; likewise, in the expression لَاحِقُ البَطْنِ, lank in the belly.
Conventional descriptive expressions for a slender build.
- Lane · entry 20567
إِلْحَاقٌ
The grammatical process of rendering a word quasi-coordinate with another word whose radical letters are more numerous, including adding a letter for that purpose.
A technical grammatical term; a letter added for this function is حَرْفُ إِلْحَاقٍ.
- Lane · entry 20568
مُلْحَقٌ
A word treated as quasi-coordinate with a word having more radical letters; hence a quasi-quadriliteral word.
A technical grammatical classification, with plural مُلْحَقَاتٌ.
- Lane · entry 20569
تَلَاحَقَ
To overtake one another or come up with one another in succession.
Used of a group whose later members catch up with its earlier members, as in the reported expression for saddle-camels.
- Lane · entry 20565
مُتَلَاحِكٌ
Cooperating or acting in concert.
An adjectival use equated with مُتَعَاوِنٌ.
- Lane · entry 20570
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The public headwords are normalized to the Classical Arabic perfect-tense citations لَحِقَ and أَلْحَقَ; the supplied Quran occurrences include imperfect, imperative, and perfect forms.