Quranic root
قيل
q · y · l
The evidence preserves a midday-rest vocabulary alongside an authority branch associated with قَيْل, the title of a Himyarite king. The authority branch includes exercising rule or control.
The root analysis treats the written ي as reflecting an original wāw, connects اقتالَ to the kingly title قَيْل, and regards the midday-rest vocabulary as a divergent branch. It also records a separate resemblance use in تَقَيَّلَ.
- Maqāyīs · row 3906
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- Quran-attested forms
- 3
- Quran senses
- 2
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
مَقِيلٌ
maqīlun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle (substantivized)
- 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 midday rest or siesta—the sleeping or resting period at noon.
The Quran-focused lexical explanation allows the form to denote the act or period of sleeping at midday, as distinct from the place where that rest occurs.
- Mufradāt · row 1225
A resting-place, especially a place of midday rest or siesta.
Used as a place noun; in the Quranic occurrence it is understood as a favorable resting-place associated with the people of Paradise.
- Lane · entry 21245
- Mufradāt · row 1225
Selected Quran examples
Quran 25:24word 7
“resting-place”
قَائِلٌ
qāʾilun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- 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.
One who takes a midday rest or sleeps at noon; by extension in the lexical description, one who remains during midday.
The Quranic plural قَائِلُونَ refers to people sleeping or resting at midday. The recorded interpretation of remaining during midday is a closely related constructional gloss, not a restriction to a particular kind of person or object.
- Lane · entry 21239
- Mufradāt · row 1225
Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:4word 10
“were sleeping at noon”
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 10 Classical meanings
قَيْلٌ
A king or ruler, especially a king of Himyar.
A historical royal title; its plural is أَقْيَالٌ.
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قَيْلٌ
Drinking at midday.
A separate midday-related lexical use, distinguished from sleeping or resting at noon.
- Maqāyīs · row 3906
اِقْتَالَ
To exercise authority over someone or impose one's judgment.
The action is explained by comparison with the authority of a قَيْل, a king or ruler.
- Maqāyīs · row 3906
قَايَلَ
To rescind, dissolve, or annul a sale with the other party.
Used with a sale or purchase in a mutual cancellation or rescission construction.
- Lane · entry 21240
أَقَالَ
To forgive or cancel a person's lapse, fault, or wrong action.
May be used of pardoning a fault; the result may be described figuratively as raising the person from a fall.
- Lane · entry 21241
تَقَيَّلَ
To resemble one's father.
The recorded construction is تَقَيَّلَ فلانٌ أباه, describing resemblance between a person and his father.
- Maqāyīs · row 3906
قَائِلَةٌ
The sleep or siesta taken at midday.
A noun for the midday sleeping period, distinct in headword from the active participle قَائِلٌ.
- Maqāyīs · row 3906
اِسْتَقَالَ
To seek the rescission of a sale or purchase.
Used when requesting that a completed sale be cancelled or rescinded.
- Lane · entry 21243
اِسْتَقَالَ
To seek pardon or release from a fault, lapse, or wrong action.
Used when asking that a fault or lapse be passed over or forgiven.
- Lane · entry 21243
مَقِيلٌ
A figurative seat or resting-place of an emotion, especially the heart as the resting-place of love or wrath.
A metaphorical application of مَقِيلٌ to the heart or another locus of feeling.
- Lane · entry 21245
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
مَقِيلٌ has an evidence-backed ambiguity between the midday-rest activity or period and the place of that rest; the supplied Quranic context supports the place reading in 25:24.
The Quranic form قَائِلُونَ is presented under the singular dictionary citation form قَائِلٌ and is assigned the midday-rest meaning on the basis of the supplied lexical evidence.
The Maqayis passage mentions قِيل and قَال as nouns rather than verbal nouns but supplies no independent gloss for them; they are therefore not expanded into separate semantic entries.