Quranic root
ملق
m · l · q
The root’s semantic orientation involves being stripped or bare and becoming soft or yielding.
The lexical analysis connects impoverishment with being divested of wealth until one is in need, while relating other branches to softening, smooth or unmarked surfaces, abrasion, and cleansing by removal.
- Maqāyīs · row 4461
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- Quran-attested forms
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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.
إِمْلَاق
ʾimlāq
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader 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
إِمْلَاق
Impoverishment through depletion of wealth, leaving a person in need.
Describes loss or exhaustion of wealth resulting in need.
- Maqāyīs · row 4461
مَلَقَ
To flay someone with a whip.
Transitive construction; the person is the object and the whip is the instrument.
- Lane · entry 5809
تَمَلَّقَ
To behave toward someone in a loving, affectionate, flattering, or coaxing manner.
Used with a direct object or with لِـ; the associated verbal nouns are تَمَلُّق and تِمِلَّاق.
- Lane · entry 5810
مَلَقِيَّة
A swiftly running mare.
- Lane · entry 5811
مَلَّاق
Vehement or energetic in journeying or pace.
Describes forcefulness or vigor in travel or movement.
- Lane · entry 5811
مِمْلَقَة
A harrow.
An agricultural implement.
- Lane · entry 5812
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The two Quran occurrences of إِمْلَاق are contextually glossed as poverty, but this packet supplies no Lane primary or unique Mufradat explanation that directly establishes that usage as a Quranic-form sense.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The Quran Foundation occurrences qf:word:6:151:18 and qf:word:17:31:5 are glossed as poverty. Because Quran Foundation context alone cannot create a sense and the packet lacks qualifying Lane or unique Mufradat form-level evidence, this Quranic usage remains unassigned to a numbered Quranic sense; the related Classical lexical meaning is preserved under إِمْلَاق.