Quranic root
لقي
l · q · y
The root expresses encounter or convergence, casting or placing something, and a separate archaic branch associated with curvature.
Its principal semantic developments are coming face to face or finding, and throwing or placing something where it may be encountered. Derived forms extend these ideas to reciprocal meeting, receiving, conveying, bestowing, and casting.
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- 13
- Quran-attested forms
- 20
- Quran senses
- 146
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
- لَقِيَVerb · Form I I · 14
- لَقَّىVerb · Form II II · 6
- لَاقَىVerb · Form III III · 3
- أَلْقَىVerb · Form IV IV · 71
- تَلَقَّىVerb · Form V V · 4
- اِلْتَقَىVerb · Form VIII VIII · 7
- لَاقٍActive participle · Form I · 1
- لِقَاءVerbal noun · 24
- مُلَاقٍActive participle · Form III · 7
- مُلْقٍActive participle · Form IV · 4
- مُتَلَقٍّActive participle · Form V · 1
- تِلْقَاءDirectional noun / adverb · 3
- تَلَاقVerbal noun · 1
لَقِيَ
laqiya
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 14 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 meet, encounter, come upon, or find someone or something.
Used for direct encounter and for finding or coming upon an object; tense and grammatical voice do not create separate lexical senses.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:14word 2
“they meet”
Quran 17:13word 12
“which he will find”
To experience or undergo something that befalls one, including hardship, good, or evil.
The object may be an experience or condition rather than a person; the Quran explicitly applies the usage to experiencing fatigue.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:62word 8
“we have suffered”
لَقَّى
laqqā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- Quran occurrences
- 6 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 to receive or undergo something; to greet, bestow, or impart something to them.
The recipient may be given a greeting, a quality or state such as radiance and joy, or a conveyed message; passive forms describe something being received or granted.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 25:75word 6
“and they will be met”
Quran 27:6word 2
“surely, receive”
Quran 76:11word 6
“and will cause them to meet”
لَاقَى
lāqā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form III
- Form
- III
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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 meet or encounter someone face to face; to have an interview with them.
The Form III construction presents the meeting as an encounter between parties.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 43:83word 5
“they meet”
Quran 52:45word 3
“they meet”
أَلْقَى
ʾalqā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 71 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 throw, cast, put, place, or cause to fall.
The object may be cast down, out, into a place, or onto something; active and passive constructions express the corresponding placing or being cast.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:20word 1
“So he threw it down”
To convey, present, offer, or address something to another.
The construction with إِلَى or عَلَى is used for words, a message, salutation or submission, affection, and other things presented or communicated to a recipient.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:171word 21
“which He conveyed”
To listen attentively or lend an ear.
This specialized Quranic construction has the ear or hearing as its object, as in أَلْقَى السَّمْعَ.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:37word 10
“(who) gives ear”
To cast someone into a prostrate or compelled state.
In the Quranic account of the magicians, the passive form describes their being overwhelmed and made to fall prostrate, rather than an ordinary voluntary act of throwing.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:70word 1
“So were thrown down”
تَلَقَّى
talaqqā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form V
- Form
- V
- 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 receive, take in, or learn something delivered to one.
Used for receiving words, information, revelation, or another conveyed matter.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:37word 1
“Then received”
Quran 24:15word 2
“you received it”
To meet or be met by someone.
This usage describes an encounter, including the angels meeting people.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 21:103word 5
“and will meet them”
اِلْتَقَى
āiltaqā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- Quran occurrences
- 7 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 meet, come together, or converge.
The reciprocal Form VIII construction presents two parties or things as coming together.
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Selected Quran examples
لَاقٍ
lāqin
- Part of speech
- Active participle · Form I
- 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.
One who meets, encounters, or is destined to meet.
The participle may take an attached object pronoun, as in one who will meet or encounter it.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:61word 6
“(will) meet it”
لِقَاء
liqāʾ
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 24 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.
Meeting, encounter, or coming face to face.
This verbal noun denotes the event or fact of meeting and may also encompass perception or finding through the senses.
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Meeting God in the eschatological sense: the resurrection, return to Him, and encounter with the consequences of one's deeds.
In Quranic constructions such as لِقَاءُ الله and لِقَاءُنَا, the meeting is conventionally an event of the Hereafter rather than an ordinary physical encounter.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 10:7word 5
“the meeting with Us”
Quran 18:110word 15
“(for the) meeting”
Quran 30:8word 20
“in (the) meeting”
مُلَاقٍ
mulāqin
- Part of speech
- Active participle · Form III
- Quran occurrences
- 7 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.
One who meets or is destined to meet someone or something.
In the Quranic expressions مُلَاقُوا الله and مُلَاقِيه, the participle refers to the eschatological meeting with God.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:46word 4
“will meet”
Quran 2:223word 14
“(will) meet Him”
Quran 84:6word 8
“and you (will) meet Him”
مُلْقٍ
mulqin
- Part of speech
- Active participle · 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.
One who throws, casts, puts, or brings something down.
The Quranic plural forms refer to agents who cast or bring something down; number and gender are inflectional, not separate lexical meanings.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:115word 10
“the ones to throw”
Quran 77:5word 1
“And those who bring down”
مُتَلَقٍّ
mutalaqqin
- Part of speech
- Active participle · Form V
- 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.
One who receives or takes in what is delivered.
The Quranic dual denotes two receiving agents in its immediate context; the lexical meaning is receiver, not a restriction to a particular number.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:17word 3
“the two receivers”
تِلْقَاء
tilqāʾ
- Part of speech
- Directional noun / adverb
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
Toward, in the direction of, facing, or opposite.
Used adverbially or as a directional noun for orientation toward a person, place, fire, or other object.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:47word 4
“towards”
Quran 28:22word 3
“towards”
From one's own part, initiative, or accord.
The construction مِن تِلْقَاءِ expresses that something proceeds from a person's own initiative or on their part.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 10:15word 24
“my own accord”
تَلَاق
talāq
- Part of speech
- Verbal 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.
Meeting or encounter; in يَوْمَ التَّلَاقِ, the eschatological Day of Meeting.
The Quranic expression is interpreted as the day of resurrection, when people and their deeds are brought together.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 40:15word 16
“(of) the Meeting”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:14لَقُوا۟they meet
- 2:37فَتَلَقَّىٰٓThen received
- 2:46مُّلَـٰقُوا۟will meet
- 2:76لَقُوا۟they meet
- 2:195تُلْقُوا۟throw (yourselves)
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 18 Classical meanings
لَقِيَ
To come near someone or come to face him.
A conventional use emphasizing proximity and facing rather than merely finding or meeting.
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لَقِيَ
To confront or treat someone with something disliked or harmful.
The object is a person confronted with an unwelcome act or treatment.
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لَقَّى
To make someone experience evil treatment.
A causative Form II construction in which the person is subjected to an adverse experience.
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لَاقَى
To experience pain or hardship.
This Form III specialization describes undergoing an adverse condition.
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لَاقَى
To make two ends meet and tie them together.
Used of bringing the two ends of a garment or similar object together.
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لِقَاء
An encounter in the sense of conflict, fight, battle, or war.
This is a conventional military or combative application of لقاء, including the day of battle.
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أَلْقَى
To put an idea into someone's mind or suggest it to them.
A figurative construction with the idea or suggestion as the thing placed in the person's mind.
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أَلْقَى
To dictate writing to a writer.
Used when the conveyed material is a text dictated for writing.
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أَلْقَى
To communicate or reveal a secret to someone.
The construction presents a concealed matter as conveyed to a recipient.
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أَلْقَى
To pay no attention to someone or something.
An idiomatic negative construction meaning to give no consideration or heed.
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أَلْقَى
Of night, to settle or lie down.
An idiomatic use applied to the onset or settling of night.
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تَلَقَّى
To receive by instruction or learn by rote.
This use is synonymous with taking in learned material through instruction and is distinct from merely encountering it.
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اِلْتَقَى
Of two anatomical passages, to join together through rupture of the intervening part.
A specialized anatomical use associated with devirgination.
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اِسْتَلْقَى
To lie on one's back, or to lie extended as though thrown down.
The Form X construction describes a person reclining or a thing lying extended.
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لَقًى
The muscles of the flesh.
A nominal anatomical meaning, distinct from the verb and its meeting or casting branches.
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إِلْقَاء
A technical sale conducted by casting or throwing a stone.
A specialized commercial expression referring to a particular form of sale.
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مَلَاقِي
The narrow or constricted parts of the female pudendum.
A plural anatomical term.
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مَلَاقِي
The horizontal slabs containing the opening of a privy.
A separate architectural or sanitary use of the plural noun.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic phrase لِقَاءُ الله and related forms conventionally refer to the eschatological meeting, resurrection, and return to God; this is a contextual specialization of the broader meeting noun.