Quranic root
ملأ
m · l · ʾ
The root centers on filling a vessel or bounded domain and being full, with extensions to capacity, fullness of states, abundance, and the prominence of a gathered group.
The lexical range develops from concrete filling and fullness to measures of capacity, figurative fullness or sufficiency, and descriptions of prominent people or assemblies whose presence fills the eye or commands regard.
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- 5
- Quran-attested forms
- 6
- Quran senses
- 40
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
مَلَأَ
malaʾa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 fill; to make full.
Used transitively for filling a recipient or domain; the same lexical use also appears in the passive as being filled. Quranic contexts include filling a realm or group and being filled with something.
- Lane · entry 12912
Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:18word 9
“surely, I will fill”
Quran 18:18word 20
“and surely you would have been filled”
Quran 72:8word 5
“filled (with)”
اِمْتَلَأَ
āimtalaʾa
- 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 become full; to fill up.
Intransitive: the subject itself reaches fullness or becomes filled.
- Lane · entry 12918
Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:30word 5
“you filled”
مَالِئٌ
māliʾun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
One who fills; filling or causing something to become full.
The Quranic plural is used predicatively with an understood object, describing those who fill something.
- Lane · entry 12912
Selected Quran examples
Quran 37:66word 4
“and fill”
Quran 56:53word 1
“Then will fill”
مَلَأٌ
malaʾun
- Part of speech
- Noun · collective noun
- Quran occurrences
- 30 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.
An assembly or collective body gathered around a common view or purpose.
The term can emphasize the gathered body as a visually impressive or dignified collective; in the Quran it may denote an assembly in general.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:246word 4
“the chiefs”
Quran 37:8word 4
“the assembly”
The leading people of a community: nobles, chiefs, princes, or other principal persons whose opinions are respected.
In Quranic usage, the collective commonly refers to the influential people surrounding a ruler or community, rather than to an undifferentiated crowd.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:246word 4
“the chiefs”
Quran 11:27word 2
“the chiefs”
مِلْءٌ
milʾun
- Part of speech
- Noun · measure 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 quantity sufficient to fill a vessel or bounded space; a full measure or capacity.
Used in measure and construct expressions for what fills a receptacle or other defined extent.
- Lane · entry 12920
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:91word 11
“full”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:246ٱلْمَلَإِthe chiefs
- 3:91مِّلْءُfull
- 7:18لَأَمْلَأَنَّsurely, I will fill
- 7:60ٱلْمَلَأُthe chiefs
- 7:66ٱلْمَلَأُthe chiefs
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 40 Classical meanings
مَلَأَ
To satisfy or glut the eye by the comeliness of someone's appearance.
Used in the construction مَلَأَ العَيْنَ and related expressions.
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مَلُؤَ
To become rich, wealthy, solvent, or well provided for.
A distinct intransitive use of the Form I root.
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مَلَأَ
Of a word or saying, to be so gross or abominable that it fills the mouth and impedes articulation.
An idiomatic figurative construction describing an utterance.
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مُلِئَ
To be filled with fright.
A figurative passive construction with an emotion as the complement.
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مَلَأَ
To sprinkle or bespatter another's clothes with mud or similar matter; of a camel, to bespatter its rider with ejected cud.
An idiomatic use recorded for the verb in specialized constructions.
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مَلَأَ عِنَانَهُ
To make or urge a mount to run vehemently.
A fixed construction with عِنَانٌ as its complement.
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مُلِئَ
To be afflicted with the disease called مُلَاءَة.
A specialized medical use, distinct from the ordinary meaning of being filled.
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مَلَّأَ
To make a horse run at the utmost rate of the pace called حُضْر.
A specialized Form II equestrian construction.
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مَالَأَ
To aid or assist someone and conform with him in doing something.
Usually constructed with عَلَى and an undertaking or action.
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أَمْلَأَ
To pull a bow to the utmost.
A specialized Form IV construction concerning the force of drawing a bow.
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أَمْلَأَ
To cause someone to be afflicted with the disease called مُلَاءَة.
A specialized causative medical construction.
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تَمَلَّأَ
To become full, including becoming full of food or drink, rage, or satiety.
The complement may be nourishment or an inner state; these are extensions of becoming filled rather than separate grammatical forms.
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تَمَلَّأَ
To put on oneself a مُلَاءَة, a covering or drapery.
A distinct specialized use of the Form V verb with a garment as its object.
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تَمَالَأَ
To agree or conspire together to do something; to aid and conform with one another in it.
A reciprocal Form VI construction, commonly with عَلَى and the matter undertaken.
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اِمْتَلَأَ
To become full of the sap, vigor, or bloom of youth; by extension, to become plump.
A figurative or extended Form VIII use describing bodily vigor or fullness.
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اِمْتَلَأَ
For the utmost of one's power or ability to be accomplished.
A figurative construction in which capacity is understood as fully realized.
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اِسْتَمْلَأَ
To arrange one's debt through wealthy or solvent persons made one's debtors.
A rare and textually uncertain Form X usage; the reported readings and interpretation are not uniform.
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مَلَأٌ
Consultation or deliberation leading to consent.
A conventional figurative use of the assembly noun, especially in expressions for deciding an affair together.
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مَلَأٌ
Opinion or judgment.
A lexical extension associated with the counsel of an assembly.
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مَلَأٌ
Disposition, nature, manners, or a person's store of needful qualities.
Used of character and conduct, including the plural expression for good manners.
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مَلَأٌ
Coveting or desire for something.
A rare nominal meaning recorded separately from assembly and counsel.
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مُلْأَةٌ
Tremulousness, flabbiness, and swelling of a camel's flesh caused by prolonged confinement after a journey.
A specialized veterinary term.
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مِلْأَةٌ
The manner or degree in which a thing is filled.
Distinct from مِلْءٌ as a measure of capacity; it describes the state or manner of filling.
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مِلْأَةٌ
An oppression or bodily distress caused by repletion with food.
A medical or physiological specialization.
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مَلَاءٌ
Richness, wealth, or abundance of means.
A nominal extension of fullness and sufficiency.
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مَلَاءٌ
Trustworthiness or honesty.
An alternative lexical value recorded for the same noun.
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مَلِيءٌ
A rich, solvent, capable, or trustworthy person.
The adjective may foreground wealth, ability to discharge obligations, or reliability; these are lexical alternatives rather than a restriction to one social class.
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مَلِيءٌ
Chiefs, understood as people rich in the qualities needed for leadership.
A substantivized plural-related use distinct from the ordinary adjective meaning.
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مُلَاءَةٌ
A defluxion or rheum caused by repletion, with heaviness in the head.
A specialized medical noun associated with overfilling of the stomach.
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مُلَاءَةٌ
A piece of drapery or covering wrapped around the body, traditionally formed of two oblong pieces of cloth sewn together.
A garment noun; its plural or collective forms are also recorded in the lexical evidence.
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مُلَاءَةُ الحُسْنِ
Fairness or beauty of complexion.
A figurative construction using the garment noun for an appearance that clothes or suffuses the person with beauty.
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مُلَاءَةٌ
Simple dust.
A rare specialized meaning recorded in the lexical entry.
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مُلَاءَةٌ
The skim that forms on the surface of milk.
A specialized material noun.
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مَلْآنٌ
Full, especially said of a vessel or similar receptacle; figuratively, full of generosity.
The figurative complement may be an abstract quality such as generosity.
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مَالِئٌ
A majestic or comely person whose appearance satisfies the eye.
A figurative active-participle use centered on visual impressiveness, not on filling a container.
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أَمْلَأُ
More satisfying or pleasing, especially to the eye; hence better or more suitable for someone.
A comparative form used of appearance or of an option judged more satisfactory.
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مَمْلُوءٌ
Filled.
The ordinary passive-participial adjective of مَلَأَ, distinct from the Quranic finite verb group.
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مَمْلُوءٌ
Afflicted with the disease called مُلَاءَة.
A specialized medical interpretation of the adjective.
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مُمْلِئٌ
An ewe whose belly contains water and matter, making her appear pregnant.
A specialized livestock description.
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مُمْتَلِئٌ
A youth in the full bloom of age.
A figurative participial description of mature youthful fullness.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The QAC Form I group contains active surfaces transcribed as أَمْلَأَ alongside passive forms, while its canonical morphology identifies the group as Form I; the public headword is therefore normalized to the classical citation form مَلَأَ and the QAC Form I identity is retained.
The rare Form X debt expression is preserved, but its lexical interpretation is explicitly uncertain in the supplied evidence.