Quranic root
ليت
l · y · t
The lexical evidence presents ليت as several distinct branches: diminution or deprivation, turning or diverting, the particle of wishing, and a separate anatomical noun for the side of the neck.
The verbal diminution branch is explained as related to 'returning the side of the neck,' while the lexical sources distinguish the anatomical noun from the branches meaning نقص and صرف. The wish particle is treated as a separate lexical item rather than as a direct development of the verb.
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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.
لَاتَ
lāta
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
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- 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 diminish or deprive someone of something due to them.
In the Quranic occurrence, the verb appears negatively in the construction لَا يَلِتْكُمْ مِنْ أَعْمَالِكُمْ شَيْئًا, meaning that none of the value or reward of one's works is diminished or withheld.
- Lane · entry 10042
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 49:14word 20
“He will deprive you”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 49:14يَلِتْكُمHe will deprive you
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
لَاتَ
To withhold, restrain, hinder, or turn someone or something away from a course, purpose, or object.
Used transitively, including with عَنْ for the course or object from which someone is turned; related uses include putting aside a thought or matter.
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لَاتَ
To conceal or obscure known information, or to communicate something different from what is known.
A specialized reported use concerning the obscuring, disguising, or misrepresentation of information.
- Lane · entry 10042
لَاتَ
A negative particle used with a time expression to say that it is not the time for an action or opportunity.
Especially used with حِينَ or another word denoting time, as in the Quranic expression وَلَاتَ حِينَ مَنَاصٍ; grammatical analyses of its construction vary.
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لَا يُلَاتُ
In a conventional expression, to be unaffected by what anyone says or not subject to another's influence.
Occurs in the saying الحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ الَّذِي لَا يُفَاتُ وَلَا يُلَاتُ; one interpretation connects it with diminution, while another explains it as being beyond the power of anyone's words or commands.
- Lane · entry 10042
لَيْتَ
A particle expressing a wish or longing: “would that” or “I wish that.”
Generally used for an impossible or unattainable matter, though it may also concern something possible. It can take attached pronouns and occurs in Quranic wish constructions such as لَيْتَنِي.
- Lane · entry 10044
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لِيتٌ
The side of the neck, especially the lower area beneath the ear and behind the jaw.
The two sides are called لِيتَانِ; the term may also refer to the places beneath the earrings or the sites where a cupping instrument is applied. A plural form is أَلْيَاتٌ.
- Lane · entry 10045
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The QAC inventory supplied here contains one Form I verb occurrence. The wish particle لَيْتَ, the negative particle لَاتَ, and the anatomical noun لِيتٌ are therefore presented as distinct lexical items rather than as additional QAC verb forms.
The historical citation attached to وَلَاتَ حِينَ مَنَاصٍ is preserved as a Quranic expression without converting Lane's citation notation into an independently asserted modern verse location.
The particle لَاتَ has competing etymological and grammatical analyses; its shared lexical function is presented without selecting among those analyses.