Quranic root
لقح
l · q · ḥ
The root denotes fecundation: the begetting of offspring by a male in a female, extended to analogous processes in plants, clouds, and other things.
From animal impregnation, the usage extends to pollinating trees and causing clouds to yield rain, and metaphorically to generating effects or developing productive capacity.
- Maqāyīs · row 4203
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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.
لَاقِحٌ
lāqiḥun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
Of winds: bearing the means of fecundation and thereby fertilizing the clouds.
Used in the Quranic feminine plural لَوَاقِحَ of winds. The construction is explained both as winds carrying water or the means of fecundation and as winds causing clouds to be fecundated, with rain as the result.
- Mufradāt · row 1316
- Lane · entry 9782
Selected Quran examples
Quran 15:22word 3
“fertilizing”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 15:22لَوَٰقِحَfertilizing
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 20 Classical meanings
لَقِحَ
To conceive or become pregnant; of a female, especially a she-camel, to receive the male’s seed and become fecund.
Also used of a palm tree or barren land becoming fecundated. In أَسَرَّتْ لَقَحًا or أَسَرَّتْ لَقَاحًا, a she-camel concealed her pregnancy.
- Lane · entry 9770
لَقِحَ
Of war, to become pregnant with great events.
A figurative use describing war as carrying momentous consequences.
- Lane · entry 9770
- Lane · entry 9782
أَلْقَحَ
To impregnate or fecundate: to cause a female animal to conceive, pollinate a palm tree, or fecundate clouds or trees.
The objects include animals, palms, trees, and clouds; the palm-tree process involves applying material from the male tree to the female.
- Lane · entry 9772
أَلْقَحَ
To engender or cause evil or mischief between people.
Figurative causative use.
- Lane · entry 9772
أَلْقَحَ
To fecundate or develop the intellect through experience and reflection on the consequences of affairs.
A figurative use in which experience or consideration makes the intellect productive.
- Lane · entry 9772
أَلْقَحَ
To make merchandise productive of a high price by means of oaths.
A figurative commercial construction.
- Lane · entry 9772
تَلَقَّحَ
To pretend to have conceived or become pregnant.
Said of a she-camel that raises her tail to prevent the stallion from approaching her when she has not actually conceived.
- Lane · entry 9773
اِسْتَلْقَحَ
Of a palm tree, to reach the proper period for fecundation or to require pollination.
Concerns the palm’s readiness for the process called إِلْقَاحٌ.
- Lane · entry 9774
لِقْحَةٌ
A woman who suckles.
A specialized, figurative or dialectal use reported in the lexical tradition.
- Lane · entry 9777
لَقَاحٌ
The pollen or spadix taken from a male palm tree to fecundate a female palm.
The material is bruised or sprinkled onto, or inserted into, the female palm’s spadix.
- Lane · entry 9778
- Lane · entry 9772
لَقَاحٌ
A tribe or people free from the rule of kings and not subjected to a ruler.
It may also describe a people who had not suffered captivity in the pre-Islamic period.
- Lane · entry 9778
لِقَاحٌ
The seminal fluid of a stallion camel, horse, or man.
The word is also used in discussions of shared parentage through a common seminal source.
- Lane · entry 9779
لَقَاحٌ
Impregnation or fecundation, especially the getting of a female with young.
A verbal-noun use related to أَلْقَحَ; in the palm context, زَمَنُ اللَّقَاحِ denotes the season of fecundation.
- Lane · entry 9779
- Lane · entry 9772
لَقُوحٌ
A she-camel, especially one that is milch or has recently given birth.
It can refer to the camel during the early months after giving birth and may be used collectively for a herd. The expression “milk the milch camel of the Muslims” figuratively alludes to drawing tribute or revenue equitably.
- Lane · entry 9780
لَاقِحٌ
A she-camel that has just conceived or become pregnant.
This camel-specific adjective is used before the pregnancy becomes visibly apparent; later stages may receive other designations.
- Lane · entry 9782
لَقَّاحٌ
A person who fecundates or pollinates palm trees.
An agent noun for the practitioner of palm pollination.
- Lane · entry 9781
مُلْقِحٌ
A male sire or fecundator, especially a stallion camel; by extension, a man to whom offspring is born.
The animal and human uses express the male’s relation to begetting offspring.
- Lane · entry 9783
مُلْقَحَةٌ
A female camel carrying her young in her belly.
A passive participial noun from أَلْقَحَ.
- Lane · entry 9784
مَلْقُوحَةٌ
The unborn offspring in a she-camel’s belly.
It can also be understood as the progeny in the stallion’s back, though the meaning referring to the offspring in the female’s belly is reported as the more correct one.
- Lane · entry 9785
مَلْقُوحَةٌ
In plural usage, the mothers themselves.
The plural المَلَاقِيحُ may sometimes denote the mother camels rather than what is in their bellies.
- Lane · entry 9785
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The public headword لَاقِحٌ is the normalized singular citation form for the Quranic feminine plural لَوَاقِحَ. Classical explanations differ in whether the winds are viewed as carrying fecundating water or as directly fecundating the clouds; the listed Quranic sense covers their shared fecundating function.