Quranic root
لقط
l · q · ṭ
The root centers on taking up something seen on the ground, often unexpectedly, though the taking may also be deliberate.
From physical picking up or finding, the lexical development extends to found property, foundlings, gleanings, mineral finds, unexpected discovery, and related agentive, locative, and figurative usages.
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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.
اِلْتَقَطَ
āiltaqaṭa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- 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 pick up, take up, or collect a person or thing found.
Used transitively for taking up or collecting what has been encountered or found; the Quranic occurrences include taking up a person.
- Lane · entry 9791
Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:8word 1
“Then picked him up”
To come upon or find unexpectedly, without seeking.
A Form VIII construction describing an unplanned discovery; the taking up may follow the unexpected encounter.
- Lane · entry 9791
Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:10word 11
“will pick him”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 27 Classical meanings
لَقَطَ
To pick up, take up, or raise something from the ground, or to take something from a place where it was not expected.
The basic Form I usage; it may describe taking something deliberately or finding and taking it without prior expectation.
- Lane · entry 9788
لَقَطَ
To acquire knowledge or information piecemeal from different books or sources.
Figurative usage with knowledge or learning as the object.
- Lane · entry 9788
لَقَطَ
To cut off a person's fingers without cutting away the main part of the hand.
A specialized transitive usage describing partial removal by cutting.
- Lane · entry 9788
مُلَاقَطَةٌ
A horse's lifting all its legs together in a rapid pace.
A technical equestrian term, applied to the paces called تَقْرِيب and خَبَب.
- Lane · entry 9789
مُلَاقَطَةٌ
Being opposite or facing one another; meeting face to face.
Used of places that face one another and of people who meet directly.
- Lane · entry 9789
تَلَقَّطَ
To pick up dates or fruits from one place after another.
Form V usage emphasizing repeated or distributed picking from scattered places.
- Lane · entry 9790
لَقَطٌ
A thing picked up or taken from the ground; found or lost property.
A noun for an object obtained by picking it up, including property found after being dropped or left.
- Lane · entry 9792
لَقَطٌ
Scattered, fallen, or paltry things left for anyone to pick up.
Includes things of little worth that have fallen or been left behind, including dates gathered from the stumps of palm branches.
- Lane · entry 9792
لَقَطٌ
Gleanings of grain or fruit collected after the main harvest.
Especially ears of grain missed by the reaping hooks and subsequently picked up.
- Lane · entry 9792
لَقَطٌ
Pieces of gold or silver found in a mine.
Used of mineral pieces discovered in the ground, especially valuable pieces found in a mine.
- Lane · entry 9792
لَقَطٌ
A small quantity of pasture or forage available in a place.
Used of sparse herbage available for grazing animals.
- Lane · entry 9792
لُقْطَةٌ
A person who repeatedly seeks out and picks up things.
A reported usage for a persistent picker; it is distinct from the more common noun meaning found property.
- Lane · entry 9793
لِقَاطٌ
The act of gleaning ears of grain missed by the reaping hooks.
Names the activity of picking up what remains after harvesting.
- Lane · entry 9797
لَقِيطٌ
A thing picked up or taken from the ground; found property.
A passive-participial noun for something found and taken up, including found property.
- Lane · entry 9798
- Lane · entry 9809
لَقِيطٌ
A foundling or abandoned child who is found and taken up.
A conventional noun for a child cast out or abandoned and subsequently found; its parentage is unknown in the standard description.
- Lane · entry 9798
لَقِيطٌ
A well discovered unexpectedly.
A specialized usage for a well upon which one lights without seeking it.
- Lane · entry 9798
لَقِيطَةٌ
A low, ignoble, base, or mean person.
Applied to a man or woman in a figurative, depreciative usage.
- Lane · entry 9800
لَاقِطٌ
One who picks up things, especially a gleaner of fallen grain or fruit; also a bird that picks up grains.
The agent noun may describe ordinary or frequent picking, including gathering ears missed at harvest and fruit fallen from the raceme.
- Lane · entry 9803
لَاقِطٌ
A person who catches up, repeats, and spreads words that have been uttered.
Figurative usage in the proverb لِكُلِّ سَاقِطَةٍ لَاقِطَةٌ, literally associating every uttered saying with someone who picks it up.
- Lane · entry 9803
لَاقِطٌ
The digestive stomach or omasum in which earth and pebbles collect.
Applied to the relevant stomach of a bird, sheep, goat, or camel because it gathers what the animal eats of earth and pebbles.
- Lane · entry 9803
لَاقِطٌ
A freedman or emancipated slave; also the slave of a freedman.
A specialized social-status usage, with related kinship terminology formed from لاقط and its paired terms.
- Lane · entry 9803
أَلْقَاطٌ
A small number of people who are separated, scattered, or dispersed.
A collective plural usage describing people in scattered groups.
- Lane · entry 9805
أَلْقَاطٌ
The refuse, lowest, basest, or meanest sort of people.
A figurative plural usage for a degraded social class or group.
- Lane · entry 9805
مَلْقَطٌ
A place where something is picked up or sought; a place of discovery, including a mine.
A locative noun for a place in which something is to be found or searched for.
- Lane · entry 9806
مِلْقَطٌ
An implement with which something is picked up or taken from the ground.
A tool noun for an instrument used to seize or lift an object.
- Lane · entry 9807
مِلْقَاطٌ
Tweezers or a pincers-like instrument used to pluck hair.
A specialized instrumental usage, identified with the implement called مِنْقَاش.
- Lane · entry 9808
مُلْتَقَطٌ
A vile, mean, paltry, or contemptible thing.
A figurative adjectival usage equivalent to a term for something fallen or debased.
- Lane · entry 9810
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The packet contains no unique Mufradat entry for this root; the Quranic lexical senses are therefore based on the Form VIII lexical evidence together with the securely identified QAC occurrences.