Quranic root
لقم
l · q · m
The root centers on taking food into the mouth, especially by hand, and thereby swallowing or consuming it.
The concrete image extends to gobbling, feeding another by mouthfuls, and habitual heavy eating. It also yields a road or path metaphor, conceived as something that takes in those who pass along it.
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- Mufradāt · row 1318
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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.
اِلْتَقَمَ
āiltaqama
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- 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.
To swallow or gulp down an object, taking it into the mouth.
Transitive construction. A rapid or forceful manner is attested in the broader lexical branch, but speed is not required for the Quranic use.
- Lane · entry 20684
- Lane · entry 20688
Selected Quran examples
Quran 37:142word 1
“Then swallowed him”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 37:142فَٱلْتَقَمَهُThen swallowed him
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 8 Classical meanings
لَقِمَ
To put morsels into one's own mouth by hand.
Self-directed construction specifying the hand as the means of putting food into the mouth.
- Lane · entry 20684
لَقَّمَ، أَلْقَمَ
To feed another by mouthfuls; to put morsels into another's mouth.
Causative transitive construction in which a recipient is supplied with food mouthful by mouthful.
- Lane · entry 20685
- Lane · entry 20686
أَلْقَمَ
To silence someone in an argument, literally as though putting a stone into the person's mouth.
Figurative expression based on the act of putting something into the mouth.
- Lane · entry 20686
تَلَقَّمَ
To swallow a morsel, gobbet, or mouthful leisurely.
Form V usage describing the manner of swallowing a discrete mouthful.
- Lane · entry 20687
اِلْتَقَمَ
In kissing, to take another's mouth within one's lips; by extension, to embrace or clasp a thing.
The kissing construction is literal; the embracing or clasping use is a figurative extension.
- Lane · entry 20688
لُقْمَةٌ
A morsel, gobbet, or mouthful of food swallowed or eaten at once, or prepared for such eating.
A countable portion intended to be consumed in one act of eating.
- Lane · entry 20689
تِلْقَامَةٌ، تَلْقَامٌ
A person who eats many mouthfuls; a voracious eater.
Descriptive noun or adjective for habitual abundance of eating.
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اللَّقَمُ
A path or route, conceived metaphorically as taking in those who pass along it; also the side or edge of a road.
Figurative or extended nominal usage derived from the image of swallowing or taking in.
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Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The idiomatic expressions لُقْمَةُ القاضي and لُقَيْمَاتُ القاضي are only cross-referenced in the supplied Lane material; their meanings cannot be assigned confidently without the referenced entries.