Quranic root
قلع
q · l · ʿ
The root centers on extracting or removing something from what holds it.
From physical extraction, the lexicon extends to detachment, displacement, departure, cessation, removal from office or favor, unsettled movement, and objects associated with throwing or being detached.
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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.
أَقْلَعَ
ʾaqlaʿa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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 stop or withhold an outpouring.
In the Quranic imperative addressed to the sky, it means to withhold or stop the rain.
- Lane · entry 21092
Selected Quran examples
Quran 11:44word 6
“Withhold”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 11:44أَقْلِعِىWithhold
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 17 Classical meanings
قَلَعَ، اِنْقَلَعَ، اِقْتَلَعَ
To pull, pluck, tear, wrench, root out, detach, or remove from a place; in the intransitive branch, to become uprooted, displaced, or detached, including to fall out.
The active and inchoative forms express corresponding removal and becoming removed; the Form VIII verb is explicitly referred to this same branch.
- Lane · entry 21091
- Lane · entry 21094
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قَلَعَ
Of she-camels, to raise the feet clear from the ground while moving.
A specialized description of gait, reported with uncertainty about the transmitted reading.
- Lane · entry 21091
أَقْلَعَ
To cease, clear away, or depart; said of rain, hardship, or fever passing away.
Used intransitively for weather, adversity, or illness coming to an end.
- Lane · entry 21092
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أَقْلَعَ عَنْهُ
To leave or quit someone or something; to abstain or desist from it.
Constructed with عَنْ for leaving, refraining, or desisting from an object or matter.
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تَقَلَّعَ فِي مَشْيِهِ
To walk as though descending a declivity.
A conventional description of manner of walking.
- Lane · entry 21093
قَلَعَةٌ
Large or detached stones; specifically, a rock breaking away from a mountain, and figuratively a huge cloud.
The cloud sense is a comparison based on the image of a large detached mass.
- Lane · entry 21096
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مِقْلَاعٌ
A device for throwing stones; a sling.
An instrument noun for an implement used to throw a stone.
- Lane · entry 21100
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قُلْعَةٌ
A person who comes off his saddle because of poor horsemanship.
A specialized description of an unskillful rider’s being thrown or dislodged from the saddle.
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مَنْزِلُ قُلْعَةٍ؛ عَلَى قُلْعَةٍ
A dwelling not suitable for permanent settlement; of a people, being on the move or traveling.
Fixed expressions for lack of settled residence and for a group in transit.
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مَقْلُوعٌ
A removed or deposed ruler, specifically a deposed emir.
A passive-participial noun referring to removal from office.
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قُلَاعٌ
Clay or mud that cracks after the water has dried away.
The noun is connected with the material’s breaking away or cracking as the water recedes.
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قُلَاعَةٌ
A piece torn from the ground and thrown at someone.
A projectile consisting of a detached piece of earth.
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قَلَاعٌ
A policeman.
A reported lexical use with limited contextual qualification in the supplied evidence.
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قَلَاعٌ
A tale-bearer who drives a person from another’s favor or position by carrying stories between them.
A figurative social use describing separation or removal through meddling.
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قِلْعٌ
The sail of a ship.
The term is explained through the sail’s lifting and moving the ship from its place.
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قَلْعٌ
A privy or latrine.
A divergent lexical use recorded separately from the principal extraction branch.
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قِلْعٌ
A small garment worn over the chest.
A divergent garment term, distinct from the nautical noun قِلْعٌ.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is the imperative surface form أَقْلِعِ; the public headword is normalized to the Form IV perfect citation form أَقْلَعَ.
The supplied technical entry قَلْعِيٌّ and the pointer-only entry مَقْلَعٌ do not provide enough referential text to assign their referenced meanings confidently.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The meanings referenced from قَلْعِيٌّ and مَقْلَعٌ remain unassigned because their Lane units are pointer-only and the referenced entries are not included in the packet.