Quranic root
لقب
l · q · b
A secondary, meaningful appellation attached to a person beyond the person's original name.
The lexical field distinguishes honorific or acceptable bynames from reproachful nicknames and extends to giving, bearing, and reciprocally assigning such names. The Quranic occurrence selects the reproachful use.
- Maqāyīs · row 4202
- Mufradāt · row 1315
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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.
لَقَب
laqab
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
A reproachful nickname or byname.
In the Quranic prohibition against calling one another by nicknames, it refers to assigning someone a name that the person dislikes; the attested form is the plural أَلْقَاب in this construction.
- Lane · entry 9767
- Mufradāt · row 1315
Selected Quran examples
Quran 49:11word 28
“by nicknames”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 49:11بِٱلْأَلْقَـٰبِ ۖby nicknames
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 6 Classical meanings
لَقَب
A secondary personal name, byname, surname, or nickname, including an honorific or otherwise non-reproachful appellation.
A non-reproachful byname is distinguished from a name intended as disparagement and is not subject to the prohibition associated with reproachful nicknames.
- Lane · entry 9767
- Mufradāt · row 1315
لَقَّبَ
To give someone a byname, surname, or nickname; to surname or nickname someone.
Form II transitive construction.
- Lane · entry 9763
تَلَقَّبَ
To acquire or be called by a byname, surname, or nickname.
Form V construction describing the subject's being known by such an appellation.
- Lane · entry 9764
لَاقَبَ
To call another by a byname, surname, or nickname, with the other person doing likewise.
Form III reciprocal construction.
- Lane · entry 9765
تَلَاقَبَ
To call one another by bynames, surnames, or nicknames.
Form VI reciprocal construction.
- Lane · entry 9766
لَقَبُ اسْم
A technical appellation for naming a noun by substituting ف, ع, and ل for its radical letters to indicate its morphological measure.
Conventional terminology of lexicology and grammar, not an ordinary personal nickname.
- Lane · entry 9763
- Lane · entry 9767
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is the inflected plural أَلْقَاب; the public headword is normalized to the singular لَقَب.
Classical Arabic includes non-reproachful and honorific bynames, whereas the Quranic prohibition concerns names used reproachfully or names disliked by the person addressed.