Quranic root
قلد
q · l · d
The root centers on fastening, twisting, or enclosing one thing with another, alongside a distinct branch denoting an allotted share, especially of water.
The twisting of rope develops into attachment and encircling objects around the neck, then into marking, imposing, or assuming a lasting burden. A separate branch denotes a portion or scheduled allotment of water; the sense of keys or treasuries is associated with securing, containing, and controlling what is held.
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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.
مَقَالِيدُ
maqālīdu
- Part of speech
- Noun · plural
- 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.
Keys; in the Quranic expression, the keys or treasuries of the heavens and the earth, signifying divine possession, preservation, and control over them.
Occurs in لَهُ مَقَالِيدُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ. The expression is interpreted literally as keys, or figuratively as treasuries and the means by which all things are opened, secured, and governed; these interpretations converge on divine authority over the universe.
- Lane · entry 8845
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 39:63word 2
“(are the) keys”
Quran 42:12word 2
“(the) keys”
قِلَادَةٌ
qilādahun
- Part of speech
- Noun · plural form قَلَائِدُ
- 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.
A garland or neck ornament placed on an animal designated for sacrifice, serving as an identifying mark.
The Quranic plural قَلَائِدُ refers to garlands placed on sacrificial animals within the sacred-rite context; the sense is a literal object hung around the animal's neck.
- Lane · entry 8833
Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:2word 14
“the garlanded”
Quran 5:97word 11
“and the garlands”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 5:2ٱلْقَلَـٰٓئِدَthe garlanded
- 5:97وَٱلْقَلَـٰٓئِدَ ۚand the garlands
- 39:63مَقَالِيدُ(are the) keys
- 42:12مَقَالِيدُ(the) keys
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 37 Classical meanings
قَلَدَ
To twist, wind, or wreath one thing around another; especially to twist a rope, or to make and twist a slender piece of iron onto another piece.
The same literal image is used figuratively of an old man's judgment when age has weakened it so that his opinion is no longer regarded.
- Lane · entry 8832
قَلَدَ
For a fever to seize or attack someone recurrently.
Reported of fever that returns every day.
- Lane · entry 8832
قَلَدَ
To irrigate growing crops.
- Lane · entry 8832
قَلَدَ
To collect and pour liquid into a receptacle, including water, milk, clarified butter, or beverage; hence, to take a beverage or wine into the belly, to drink.
The collecting sense applies to transferring liquid into a tank or skin; the drinking use is expressed with a beverage entering the belly.
- Lane · entry 8832
قَلَّدَ
To put a necklace or collar around someone or an animal's neck, or to hang a sword from a person's neck or shoulder by its suspensory strap.
The object may be a neck ornament, a marker, or a sword suspended by its belt; the Quranic sacrificial-animal application is represented separately under the Quranic form.
- Lane · entry 8833
قَلَّدَ
To invest someone with an office or administrative authority; also, to confer a lasting badge of favor upon him.
This is a figurative extension of placing something around the neck as a lasting sign or charge.
- Lane · entry 8833
تَقْلِيدٌ
Following another person's statement or action as authoritative without examining the proof, firmly believing that person to be correct.
A religious or intellectual figurative use, conceived as making another person's view a collar fastened around one's neck.
- Lane · entry 8833
قَلَّدَ
To oblige, constrain, or impose an affair upon someone.
Figurative causative construction with an affair or task as the imposed object.
- Lane · entry 8833
قَلَّدَهُ قِلَادَةَ سَوْءٍ
To satirize or stigmatize someone with a lasting mark of disgrace.
The disgrace is conceived as something fastened to the person and not easily removed.
- Lane · entry 8833
أَقْلَدَ
For the sea to drown or engulf people by closing over and covering them.
Used of the sea overwhelming a large number of people.
- Lane · entry 8834
تَقَلَّدَ
To put a necklace or similar object around one's own neck, or to hang a sword from one's neck or shoulder.
The reflexive Form V construction describes self-adornment or self-suspension.
- Lane · entry 8835
تَقَلَّدَ
To become invested with an office or administrative authority.
Figurative use derived from wearing something as a lasting sign or charge.
- Lane · entry 8835
تَقَلَّدَ
To take an affair upon oneself, undertake it, or impose it upon oneself.
Equivalent in the cited usage to committing oneself to an obligation or undertaking.
- Lane · entry 8835
قِلْدٌ
A single strand or twist of a rope; also a bracelet of a corresponding twisted form.
The bracelet use is compared with the twisted strand of a rope.
- Lane · entry 8837
قِلْدٌ
The day on which an intermittent or quartan fever returns; also, a person attacked by such a fever on its recurring day.
The term may denote the recurring day itself or, according to one attestation, the person afflicted on that day.
- Lane · entry 8837
قِلْدٌ
The caravans travelling from Mecca to Jeddah.
A specialized usage reported for the plural form.
- Lane · entry 8837
قِلْدٌ
Irrigation or an allotted, scheduled turn of watering; also regular rain or watering supplied at appointed intervals.
Applied to irrigating crops, to the day assigned for irrigation, to periodic rain, and to regularly scheduled watering of animals or palm trees.
- Lane · entry 8837
قِلْدٌ
A portion or allotted share of water; a draught of water.
- Lane · entry 8837
قِلْدٌ
The management or charge of an affair entrusted to someone.
Figurative construction in which one's affair is committed to another person.
- Lane · entry 8837
قِلْدَةٌ
The dregs or sediment of clarified butter; also a mixture of dates and parched barley or wheat meal used in clarifying butter.
A specialized food-preparation term, also identified with قِشْدَةٌ or كُدَادَةٌ.
- Lane · entry 8838
قَلْدَةٌ
The anatomical part where the moustaches divide, at the partition between the two nostrils.
A rare anatomical usage, also reported with several variant names.
- Lane · entry 8839
قَلِيدٌ
A twisted rope.
Nominal description of the completed twisted object, distinct from the Form I action of twisting.
- Lane · entry 8840
قِلَادَةٌ
A necklace, collar, or similar object that is put around and surrounds a neck.
Used for a neck ornament or collar on a person or animal; its plural is قَلَائِدُ. The specialized Quranic sacrificial-marking use is listed separately.
- Lane · entry 8841
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قَلَائِدُ الشِّعْرِ
Verses or poems that endure and remain throughout time.
A figurative plural use, likening lasting poetry to something permanently fastened.
- Lane · entry 8841
قِلَادَةٌ
A lasting badge or continuing obligation of favor and acknowledgment; in an opposed use, an enduring badge of disgrace.
Figurative uses describe a favor or stigma as something fastened around a person and not readily removed; the positive sense is reported as more common.
- Lane · entry 8841
القِلَادَةُ
A certain asterism.
A specialized astronomical usage.
- Lane · entry 8841
أَقْلِيدٌ
A reported variant term for the irrigation portion or watering allotment called قِلْدٌ.
The cited reading is explicitly uncertain and may reflect a scribal mistake in the source tradition.
- Lane · entry 8844
إِقْلِيدٌ
A key.
The form is reported with dialectal and borrowing-related variation; its plural forms include أَقَالِيدُ and مَقَالِيدُ.
- Lane · entry 8845
مَقَالِيدُ
The control, disposal, or management of affairs entrusted to someone.
A figurative extension of keys as instruments of access and control.
- Lane · entry 8845
مَقَالِيدُ / مَقَالِدُ
Means or affairs that have become straitened or difficult.
A reported figurative usage; the cited lexical authority notes that this application is not firmly established.
- Lane · entry 8845
مِقْلَدٌ
A crooked-headed stick or reaping-hook used to twist herbage or cut it for making ropes.
The tool is associated especially with twisting cut herbage such as قَتّ into ropes.
- Lane · entry 8846
مِقْلَادٌ
A repository, magazine, store-room, or treasury.
Its plural is reported as مَقَالِيدُ; this is a classical nominal distinct from the Quranic plural's broader interpretive range.
- Lane · entry 8847
مَقْلُودٌ
A twisted bracelet formed by joining or twisting together two bracelets of the قُلْب type; also a bracelet made of twisted silver.
A specialized ornament term.
- Lane · entry 8848
مُقَلَّدٌ
The place where a necklace or collar rests, or where the sword's suspensory belt lies, namely the neck or shoulder area.
The definition concerns the bearing place of a neck ornament or sword strap, not the ornament or strap itself.
- Lane · entry 8849
مُقَلَّدٌ
Having a necklace, collar, or similar object put around the neck.
Passive-participial use describing the person or animal bearing the object.
- Lane · entry 8849
مُقَلَّدٌ
A horse that has outstripped the others and is marked with something around its neck to show its victory.
The neck marker identifies the winning horse.
- Lane · entry 8849
مُقَلَّدٌ
A chief or leader upon whom the affairs of his people have been imposed.
A figurative passive-participial use describing someone charged with communal affairs.
- Lane · entry 8849
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
مَقَالِيدُ is retained as a plural public citation because the supplied lexical evidence allows several possible singulars and also reports that it may lack a fixed singular.
The reported أَقْلِيدٌ irrigation form is textually uncertain and may reflect a mistaken reading; it is preserved as a qualified Classical meaning rather than silently omitted.
The Lane Quran citation for the keys expression is explicitly identified as Quran 39:63 and 42:12; no historical bracket notation has been converted independently.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The unit lane-unit:qld:8844:g2:main preserves a reading that Lane itself suggests may be a mistake; it is assigned to cm-aqlid-irrigation with that uncertainty stated in its usage conditions.